19 Facts About Harold Schultz

Harold Henry Schultz was a United States Marine corporal who was wounded in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

Harold Schultz was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the first US flag on Iwo Jima on February 23,1945.

Harold Schultz was not recognized as one of the second flag-raisers until the Marine Corps announced on June 23,2016, after an investigation, that he was in the historic photograph which was taken by combat photographer Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press.

The Marine Corps stated that Harold Schultz was incorrectly identified as Private First Class Franklin Sousley in the photograph.

Harold Schultz is one of three Marines in the photograph who were not originally identified as flag raisers.

Harold Schultz was born and raised in Detroit, the son of Karl Albert and Marie Martha Schultz.

Harold Schultz attended Southwestern High School, where he was a classmate of Stan Lopata.

Harold Schultz entered the Marine Corps Reserve on December 23,1943, from Detroit, Michigan.

Harold Schultz was a member Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division which was activated in 1944 and began training at Camp Pendleton.

Harold Schultz was honorably discharged with the rank of corporal on October 17,1945.

Harold Schultz was part of the patrol, and one of the Marines who guarded the flag raisers and some others with them during and after the flag raising.

Schultz and Private First Class Harold Keller, who was a member of Lt.

Harold Schultz was wounded in action and was evacuated off the island.

Since June 23,2016, Harold Schultz is depicted as the fifth bronze statue from the base of the flagstaff on the memorial with the 32 foot bronze statues of the other five flag raisers depicted on the memorial; Franklin Sousley is depicted as the third instead of the fifth bronze statue from the bottom of the flagstaff.

Harold Schultz was questioned the same day by a Marine public information officer about all the identities of the flag raisers in the photograph.

The possibility that Harold Schultz was in the photograph first publicly surfaced in November 2014, when the Omaha World Herald published an article questioning the accepted identifications, based on research conducted by amateur historians Eric Krelle and Stephen Foley.

In June 2016, it concluded that Harold Schultz was in the photograph and John Bradley was not.

Franklin Sousley, not Harold Schultz, is in the position initially ascribed to Bradley in the photograph and Harold Schultz is in Sousley's former position in the photograph.

In October 2019, a third Marine Corps investigation found that Harold Schultz Keller was in Rosenthal's photograph in place of Rene Gagnon.