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Photo History: Setting the Record Straight On Iwo Jima Image

By David Schonauer   Wednesday June 29, 2016

The Marine Corps has set the record straight about one of the most iconic images in the history of photography — Joe Rosenthal’s picture of soldiers raising the American flag atop Iwo Jima’s Mt. Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945. After an internal investigation, the Marine Corp concluded that the late …

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