( What do you think ? )This photo of Ira Hayes was taken when the 19-year-old Pima Indian was getting ready to jump during Marine Corps Paratroop School in 1943. He qualified as a parachutist on November 30 and was promoted to private first class.
Another photograph of Ira Hayes was taken during World War II—this time by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. The Battle of Iwo Jima raged from February 19 to March 26. Hayes was one of the men captured in Rosenthal’s iconic photograph of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima. Now part of U.S. Navy records held in the National Archives, it is one of the most famous war photographs.Photograph of Pfc. Ira H. Hayes, 1943. National Archives Identifier 519164
Photograph of Flag Raising on Iwo Jima, National Archives Identifier 520748
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