Foley looked at those photos. He looked at the famous photo, where Bradley is said to be the figure second from right. This man's face is largely obscured as he yanks the flag into place.


He looked at Bradley again. He looked at the famous photo again.


Strange, the Irishman thought. That doesn't look like the same man.


He could have stopped there, probably would have stopped had he not been stuck on his couch.


But he was anchored for weeks, and so the Irishman recovering from hernia surgery grabbed his computer and began to pull up dozens of other photos taken atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945 — photos that in recent years have become publicly available on the Internet.


There were actually two flags raised that day on Mount Suribachi. A first flag went up in the morning, before a serious firefight with Japanese soldiers who were hiding in nearby caves. There are photos of that first flag raising, but none ever became famous.


The Americans raised a second flag several hours later, reportedly because they had been ordered to put up a bigger flag by commanding officers. This second flag raising, which happened during a lull in the fighting, became the subject of Rosenthal's famous photo.


http://dataomaha.com/media/news/2014/iwo-jima/

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