March 13, 1979(1979-03-13) (aged 57) Grinnell, Iowa, U.S.
Buried
Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery, Brooklyn, Iowa
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Marine Corps
Years of service
1942–1945
Rank
Corporal
Unit
Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division
Battles/wars
World War II
Guadalcanal campaign
Bougainville campaign
Battle of Iwo Jima
Awards
Purple Heart
Harold Paul Keller (August 3, 1921 – March 13, 1979) was a United States Marine corporal who was wounded in action during the Bougainville campaign in World War II. During the Battle of Iwo Jima, he was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. He is one of the six Marines who raised the larger replacement flag on the mountaintop the same day as shown in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
The first flag flown over Mount Suribachi at the south end of Iwo Jima was regarded to be too small to be seen by the thousands of Marines fighting on the other side of the mountain, so it was replaced by the second one. Although there were photographs taken of the first flag flying on Mount Suribachi, there is no photograph of Marines raising the first flag. The second flag raising became famous and took precedence over the first flag-raising after copies of the second flag-raising photograph appeared in newspapers two days later. The second flag raising was also filmed in color.[1]
Keller was not recognized as one of the second flag-raisers until the Marine Corps announced on October 16, 2019, after an investigation, that he was in the historic photograph taken by combat photographer Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press. The Marine Corps also stated that Keller was incorrectly identified as Private First Class Rene Gagnon in the photograph, who they determined is not in the photo.[2] Keller is one of three Marines in the photograph who were not originally identified as flag raisers.[3]
The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, is modeled after the photograph of six Marines raising the second flag on Iwo Jima.[4]
^Shooting Iwo Jima. Military History. Retrieved March 14, 2020 – via YouTube.
^"Warrior in iconic Iwo Jima flag-raising photo was misidentified, Marines Corps acknowledges". NBC News. 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-30.
^Robertson, Breanne, ed. (2019). Investigating Iwo: The Flag Raisings in Myth, Memory, and Esprit de Corps(PDF). Quantico, Virginia: Marine Corps History Division. pp. 243, 312. ISBN 978-0-16-095331-6.
^"Joe Rosenthal and the flag-raising on Iwo Jima". The Pulitzer Prizes.
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Hayes, Pfc. Sousley, Pfc. Harold Schultz, and Pfc. HaroldKeller, as the original flag came down. Pfc. Schultz and Pfc. Keller were members of Lt. Schrier's...
raised and the first flag lowered. The four Marines and Pfc. Harold Schultz and Pfc. HaroldKeller (both members of Lt. Schrier's patrol) raised the larger...
Private First Class Harold Schultz was; and in 2019, that Rene Gagnon was not in the photograph and Private First Class HaroldKeller was. By the morning...
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