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Marines admit man in iconic Iwo Jima photo was misidentified

In February of 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal snapped the iconic photo of U.S. Marines raising a flag on Iwo Jima. But he didn't have time to get the names of the men in it. That was left to the Marines, and it turns out they didn't get it right. David Martin reports.
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