When you make a movie so you don’t want to offend the Chinese market because they can’t stand our flag, covering it up for the American audience ain’t doing the picture any good in the state, don’t you think? But hell, take a knee for a flag, dont show it on the moon, hell call Clint Eastwood for a directors cut of the marines not raising it on Mt Suribachi. It’s either part of history, or revisionist history, and that what this is. Done with American hating Hollywood trying to be PC in retelling history as they think it should have happened. That crap started with Oliver Stone and JFK.
I made the following analogy on another thread: Imagine for a moment they made a movie about the Battle of Iwo Jima without showing the raising of the Flag on Mount Suribachi and the members of the movie company say something about they left it out as they don’t see it as an American victory, but a victory for all freedom loving people? Would you feel the same? Would my objection to such a deliberate omission be considered virtue-signaling?
They didn't cover it up. It's right there. So are all the U.S. flag patches and decals and the praise for the achievement of America afterwards. Your entire premise is wrong.