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Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was an Akimel O'odham Indigenous American and a United States Marine during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community , located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona .
Dec 16, 2021 · The Tragic Death Of WWII Corporal Ira Hayes. The raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945, as depicted in the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, was not the first to take place on the island.
Nov 7, 2021 · Marine paratrooper and Pima tribesman Ira Hamilton Hayes was immortalized in the photo of the U.S. flag being raised over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. Ira Hayes was born to Nancy and Jobe on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona in 1923.
On 26 August 1942, Ira Hayes enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve at Phoenix for the duration of the National Emergency. Following boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at San Diego, Hayes was assigned to the Parachute Training School at Camp Gillespie, Marine Corps Base, San Diego.
Mar 1, 2024 · They celebrated the life and legacy of Ira Hamilton Hayes, who’s remembered as a complicated hero. He’s perhaps best known for being one of six Marines captured in the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” during World War II.
Feb 23, 2020 · Hayes went on to worldwide fame, captured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of six U.S. Marines raising an American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of...
Nov 3, 2021 · On Feb. 23, 1945, Marine Corps Pfc. Ira Hayes, a 22-year-old Pima Indian from Arizona, achieved immortal fame as one of the six flag raisers in the iconic World War II photo and film taken atop...
Ira Hayes was a Marine paratrooper (ParaMarine) who fought on two islands in the Pacific and then on Iwo Jima as an infantry rifleman. He helped raise a large US flag on Mt Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945.
Corporal Ira Hamilton Hayes died on 24 January 1955 in Bapchule, AZ. In death, Ira was afforded the respect and accolades he rarely found in life, as his body was made to lie in State in the Arizona Capitol Building.
Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian Marine and one of the last surviving members of the Iwo Jima flag raising in World War II.
