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Museum sued over “loss” of Iwo Jima photos

NEW YORK: A man is suing a New York museum claiming it lost several of his Second World War-era photographs, including the famous shot of the U.S. flag being raised on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.

Rodney Hilton Brown says the photos were part of the Second World War memorabilia he loaned to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located on a retired aircraft carrier usually docked in the Hudson River.

Mr. Brown, a mortgage broker who collects historical artefacts as a hobby, said at least eight of 52 pictures were missing when the museum returned his collection to him in November 2006. Mr. Brown said the missing photos included the Pulitzer Prize-winning shot by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Mr. Brown’s lawsuit accuses the museum of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty for taking the album apart to display certain photos and then losing some of them. It seeks $175,000 in damages. — AP

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