Marines say they misidentified one man in iconic 1945 Iwo Jima photo

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Crazy to think that after all this time new facts are coming out about this event. They don't make 'em like they used to.

WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps acknowledged Thursday it had misidentified one of the six men in the iconic 1945 World War II photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima.
The investigation solved one mystery but raised another. The Marine Corps investigation identified a man who has never been officially linked to the famous photo: Pvt. 1st Class Harold Schultz, who died in 1995 and went through life without publicly talking about his role.

Schultz may have mentioned his role at least once. MacDowell now she recalls he said he was one of the flag raisers over dinner in the early 1990s when they were discussing the war in the Pacific.
“Harold, you are a hero,” she said she told him. “Not really. I was a Marine,” he said.

Marines say they misidentified one man in iconic 1945 Iwo Jima photo