Marine Corps says another WWII hero misidentified in iconic, flag-raising Iwo Jima photo
Another Marine photographed in the iconic photograph of six men raising a United States flag over Iwo Jima has been misidentified, Marine Corps officials said Thursday. The Marine Corps announced that Cpl. Harold "Pie" Keller was one of the men in the photograph, a development that comes 74 years after the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was taken on Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer. Originally, the man identified on the far side of the flag pole was Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon – a miscalculation caused, in part, ...
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