US Marines Investigating Iwo Jima Photo

The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating the possibility that one of the six marines in an iconic photo taken at The Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II has been misidentified. The probe comes more than a year after two amateur historians raised doubts about one soldier. "The Marine Corps is examining information provided by a private organization related [to] Joe Rosenthal's Associated Press photograph," the Marine Corps spokesman Major Chris Devine said in a...

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