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Ira Hayes. The son of Joeb E. and Nancy W. Hayes, Ira Hayes was born on the
Gila River Indian Reservation in Sacaton, Arizona. Hayes ...
... d. Cpl. Ira Hayes was Pima Indian. He was very reluctant to accept being an American
hero because 5 men in his platoon of 45 survived. Cpl. ...
... There is the farmer, Franklin Sousley, the rancher, Harlon Block, the mill worker,
Rene Gagnon, the Native American, Ira Hayes, the immigrant, Mike Strank, and ...
... Native American groups were not housed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were
forbidden from conducting a ceremony at the grave of Ira Hayes, they became ...
... Ira Hayes says “I know it’sa good thing, raising the money and that, ‘cause
we need it. But, I can’t take them calling me a hero. ...
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The son of Joeb E. and Nancy W. Hayes, Ira Hayes was born on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Sacaton, Arizona. Hayes left school and enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves on 24 August 1942.
After completing recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Hayes trained as a paratrooper at Marine Corps Base San Diego and was nicknamed Chief Falling Cloud. On 2 December 1942, he joined Company B, 3rd Parachute Battalion, Divisional Special Troops, 3rd Marine Division, at Camp Elliott, California. On 14 March 1943, Hayes sailed for New Calidonia with the 3rd Parachute Battalion. Hayes first saw combat on Bougainville. He returned home briefly on leave, after which his family said years afterward he was a changed man, more serious.
The Marine Corps parachute units were disbanded in February, and Hayes was transferred to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton. From September 1944, Hayes sailed to Hawaii for further training.
[edit] The Flag on Iwo Jima
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / Associated PressOn February 19, 1945, Hayes took part in the landing on Iwo Jima. He then participated in the battle for the island and was among the group of Marines that took Mount Suribachi four days later, on February 23, 1945.
The raising of the second American flag on Suribachi by five Marines, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Mike Strank, and a Navy Corpsman, John Bradley, was immortalized by photographer Joe Rosenthal and became an icon of the war. Overnight, Hayes (on the far left of the photograph) became a national hero, along with the two other survivors of the famous photograph, Rene Gagnon and John Bradley. Hayes's story drew particular attention because he was Native American.
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