Navy Pharmacist’s Mate John Bradley was from Antigo, Wisconsin.

He was twenty-one at the time of the flag raising.

Bradley survived the war, returned to Wisconsin, married, raised a family, and ran a funeral parlor.

He rarely spoke about Iwo Jima in the decades that followed and reportedly did not discuss it with his children.

His son James Bradley wrote about him in the 2000 book Flags of Our Fathers, which later became a Clint Eastwood film.

The 2016 Marine Corps review of the identifications raised questions about whether Bradley was actually in the photograph, suggesting his figure may have been Navy corpsman Harold Schultz instead.