COMMENTARY: The Berger Plan — what’s NOT in Michael Gordon’s Wall Street Journal article & a “gentle nudge” that’s IN the article
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IWO JIMA SPECIAL: the 75 year road to correctly identifying the US Marines in Joe Rosenthal’s icon image — Keller not Gagnon; Schultz not Bradley
by Michael F. McNamara | Feb 26, 2020 | Iwo Jima, World War II
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