New doubts have emerged about the iconic image of U.S. Marines raising a flag over Iwo Jima in World War II

New doubts have emerged about the iconic image of U.S. Marines raising a flag over Iwo Jima in World War II

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 5:53 PM EDT

The identity of an American serviceman in one of the most iconic photographs of World War II, the raising of the American flag over Iwo Jima, has been called into question by his son, who wrote a best-selling book that memorialized his father’s role.

James Bradley, the author of “Flags of Our Fathers,” said in an interview Tuesday that he no longer believed that his father, John Bradley, a Navy corpsman, was one of the six men who have been long identified in the photograph.

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