Posted on 06/23/2016 7:53:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven
The Marine Corps admitted Thursday that it misidentified one of the six men in the World War II photograph of a flag-raising in Iwo Jima — one of the most iconic images in American history.
For more than 70 years, history said John Bradley, a Navy hospital corpsman, was one of the six men seen in the legendary photo from one of the war’s bloodiest battles.
But the Marines now say Bradley is nowhere in the photo — and the man believed to be Bradley is in fact Harold Schultz, a private first class.
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Schultz is a german name. Maybe they didn’t want that getting out.
I think it unlikely that was an issue.
Even in the earliest days of WWII the USG did not treat Americans of German ancestry with anything close to the degree of concern with which it viewed the Japanese. Additionally, we had been in open conflict with German naval forces in the Atlantic prior to December 7, 1941 and while there may have been relatively minor local instances of hostility there was a sizable presence in our nation of those with German ancestry that was well regarded.
****ed right! :’)
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