Ira Hayes
A community portal about Ira Hayes with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ira Hamilton Hayes was a full blood Akimel O’odham, or Pima Indian, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. A survivor of... [more]
A community portal about Ira Hayes with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ira Hamilton Hayes was a full blood Akimel O’odham, or Pima Indian, and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. A survivor of World War II's Battle of Iwo Jima, Hayes was trained as a Paramarine in the United States Marine Corps, and became one of five Marines, along with a US Navy corpsman, immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.
When Ira Hayes was alive, his image was captured in one of the most famous war photographs ever taken - the World War II image of U.S. military personnel raising the flag over Iwo Jima.
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