My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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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