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Some people think the UNKNOWN listed in the picture of raising of the first flag is Pvc.Louis Charlo the Indian guy from Montana..his friend was James Michels another Indian guy who's in the picture. Check out this article..the link is :www.molesworthmi.org/news2.html#PFCcharlo

but then their are others who disagree in the link and excerpt below: www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1562152/posts

excerpt from the link above:

"They continue to insist that PFC Louis Charlo was a flag raiser.Charlo was an F Company BARman.He had no reason to be there.You will not find him in any Lowery pictures.There is not one shred of evidence that he was there. The bottom line here is that dispite the photographic proof,the personal identifications and the work of the forensic photo analyst the official line of the Marine History Center and Leatherneck is that none of this happened.They continue to support and distribute to writers,reporters and the general public a flawed story of the first flag raising that incorrectly identifies most of the men there and has no basis in fact and is just plain wrong."