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John Henry "Jack" "Doc" Bradley was a United States Navy Hospital corpsman who was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving with the Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Bradley is best known as one of the six men originally identified as the flag raisers in the world famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima which taken by Associated Press combat photographer Joe Rosenthal on Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945. In June 2016, after an investigation by the Marine Corps, they announced that Bradley was not one of these flag raisers, and t
John Henry "Jack" "Doc" Bradley was a United States Navy Hospital corpsman who was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism while serving with the Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Bradley is best known as one of the six men originally identified as the flag raisers in the world famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima which taken by Associated Press combat photographer Joe Rosenthal on Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945. In June 2016, after an investigation by the Marine Corps, they announced that Bradley was not one of these flag raisers, and that a Marine in the photograph was in Bradley's position and another named Marine was in that Marine's position in the photograph.
This flag raising has generally been portrayed as the only American flag raising on Mount Suribachi which is located on the south end of the island. However, earlier the same day, a 40-man patrol, which included Bradley, had climbed and captured the mountaintop and raised a flag. Because the first flag was regarded to be too small to be seen by the thousands of Marines fighting on the other side of Iwo Jima, it was soon replaced by a larger second flag. Although there were photographs taken of the first flag flying on Mount Suribachi, there was no photograph taken of anyone raising that flag. The second flag raising became famous and took precedence over the first flag raising after the photograph of it appeared worldwide in newspapers.
It was determined that Bradley participated in the first flag raising (he helped to secure the first flagstaff into the ground after it was raised and planted) but not the second flag raising. The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, which was modeled after the second flag raising, no longer depicts Bradley as being one of the six bronze figures on it.
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