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Solving the Mystery of the Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima

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Marine Lt. Col. Matthew W. Morgan, producer of the Smithsonian doc The Unknown Flag Raiser of Iwo Jima, on the 70-year mystery behind one of America’s most iconic images.

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On June 23rd, the Marine Corps publicly acknowledged that a previously unidentified Marine named Harold H. Schultz was one of the six men pictured in what is arguably the best-known image of the last century: Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of the 1945 flag-raising on Iwo Jima.

In making the announcement,...

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