The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Marines Correct 2nd ID in Iconic Iwo Jima Photo-- Part 2: A Silent Hero


The newly identified Marine in the photo, Corporal Harold P. Keller, died in 1979, in Grinnel, Iowa.

NBC interviewed his daughter, Kay Maurer, 70, of Brooklyn, Iowa.  She said that her father kept a framed Rosenthal phot showing 18 Marines on the summit of Mount Suribachi with the flag in the background, but he never mentioned his role in the historic event.

"He never spoke about any of this when we were growing up, she said.  "We knew he fought in the war.  We knew he was wounded in the shoulder at one point.  But he didn't tell us he helped raise the flag on Mount Suribachi."

--GreGen


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