NEW: US Marine Corps has admitted Wednesday that for 74 years, it had misidentified 1 of the 6 fighting men who appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the US flag being raised over Iwo Jima.
There were actually two Iwo Jima flag-raisings on on Feb. 23, 1945, to signal that one of the bloodiest battles of World War II was won. The first flag was deemed too small by military brass and replaced a few hours after it went up with a second, larger flag. Rosenthal's prize-wining picture was of the second flag-raising.Pvt. George Burns / U.S. Army / Courtesy U.S.
Foley, who is Irish, was one of the two historians who worked on confirming that Schultz was in the Rosenthal photo,. Bradley was the subject of the bestseller “Flags of Our Fathers,” which was written by his son, James Bradley. It was later turned into a movie by Clint Eastwood. Westemeyer's suspicions hardened into certainty in 2014 after he immersed himself in the film footage that was taken on the summit by Sgt. Bill Genaust, a Marine cameraman who was killed in action a week later.
Of the six figures in the photo, the man in the position second from the right is the most obscured in Rosenthal’s photo.forum to which they both belonged. Foley, in turn, had been in contact with the California-based Spence.Moments after the second flag has been raised. Lt. Harold G. Schrier salutes on the left and Plat. Sgt. Ernest I. Thomas Jr. on the right.
There were other clues in the photographs they collected, Spence said, like the camouflage pattern and creases on Keller’s helmet matching that of the man in the second spot. Keller was slated to go to officer training school at Quantico, Virginia, when the war ended and he decided, instead, to go home. He returned to his job as a telephone lineman and raised two sons and his daughter, Kay.Pvt. Bob Campbell / NARAMaurer could recall only a couple of other tidbits from the war that his father told her.
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