Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Staged Photographs: Iwo Jima
From: "Lee, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:08:37 -0400
 
From Marc:

The flag-raising was NOT staged;  it was NOT a publicity event.  It was
brave men doing what brave men do in battle.

I read somewhere that most of the men in that party were killed within
days of the event.

Jonathan Lee