LTCOL CHARLIE NEIMEYER, USMC (RET): how the Marine Corps Historical Division identified PFC Harold Schultz as “The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima”
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FROM THE VAULT: Matt Morgan answers questions after we watched “The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima”
PFC Harold Schultz, USMC
The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima
2nd Flag Raising
July 5, 2016
LtCol Matt Morgan, USMC (ret) answers our questions after we watched his documentary “The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima” that was shown on The Smithsonian Channel on July 3, 2016.
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LTCOL MATT MORGAN, USMC (ret): producing “The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima” for the Smithsonian Channel
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STEPHEN FOLEY: an amateur Irish historian, on disability leave, leads the Marine Corps to the stunning renaming of the participants in the iconic Joe Rosenthal picture of the second flag raising on Iwo Jima
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Why I believe John “Doc” Bradley knew he wasn’t in the Joe Rosenthal “Iwo Jima Flag Raising” image and why he would have kept it to himself
As promised, the original story in the Omaha World-Herald is here along with the outstanding graphic evidence (that is magnifiable) that was used by amateur historians to convince the United States Marine Corps to investigate whether the identities of the “Flag Raisers” were accurate.
Navy Corpsman John Bradley
February 23, 1945
1st Flag Raising
2nd Flag Raising
Original Flag Raisers, Doc Bradley included
2nd Flag Raising
Corrected Flag Raisers, PFC Harold Schultz included
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