Who Really Raised the Flag on Iwo Jima?
For over seventy years, Marine Corps misidentified two men who raised the first flag on Iwo Jima. Here's What You Need to Know: The second flag raising, in which Marines replaced the first flag with a much larger one, would be the one immortalized forever by war photographer Joe Rosenthal’s famous picture. The Marine Corps announced on August 24, 2016 that it revised the identification of two of the men who raised the first flag on Iwo Jima. Marine Corps commandant General Robert B. Neller stated in an address on the revelation: “Our history is important, and we owe it to our Marines ...
Source: nationalinterest.org