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Marine Corps officials have determined that two men pictured in the first flag raising on Iwo Jima were misidentified just months after they found mistakes in another famous photo from that day.
In this Feb. 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. — -- The Marine Corps has determined that a Marine in the ...
But a Marine with Regimental Combat Team 7 here keeps one of those traditions alive each night by honoring the American flag. Cpl. Brandon Harper, Headquarters Company clerk, volunteered to raise ...
The Marine Corps admitted in a statement Thursday that it had misidentified one of the six men pictured in the iconic flag-raising photo taken during the battle for Iwo Jima in 1945. An internal ...
The Marine Corps is investigating whether some of the six men in the photo of the 1945 flag-raising in Iwo Jima, Japan, were misidentified after two amateur historians raised questions about the ...
CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...