The Associated Press on Thursday issued a lengthy story correcting information about one of the most famous war photos in history.

“Over the years, the photo - which shows a procession of men walking down a dirt road, bearing bodies in blankets hung from bamboo poles - has become perhaps the most widely published image of what came to be known as the Bataan Death March,” the story explains.

But it goes on to reveal that a survivor of the incident, John E. Love, in the past year contacted AP to inform it that the photo was not of the famed Death March, which occurred after Allied soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces on the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula in April 1942.

“That picture is not of the Death March,” Love, 87, says in the story. “The Japanese would not have tolerated a bunch of slow marching guys carrying their own dead. They wouldn't have tolerated it just one New York minute.”

“It is rare for the news service to correct the information filed with a historical photo, said Valerie Komor, director of the AP Corporate Archives. There are many images in storage, and any individual photograph is likely to be re-examined only if someone calls it into question,” AP stated. “But that does not mean the first draft of history cannot be rewritten.

”I'm glad we came to a resolution for these veterans who understandably take it very seriously, as well they should," Chuck Zoeller, a longtime director of the AP Photo Library who now works on the corporate communications staff, said in the story. “I'm glad there's some satisfaction for them in it.”