A Case of Mistaken Identity – For 71 Years!

  Perhaps the single most iconic photograph from World War II is the one (above) of six Marines raising a U.S. flag on top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945.  The photograph, first published in Sunday newspapers around the nation on 25 February 1945, “went viral”, as we would say today and was reprinted in thousands of publications.  Titled Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, the…