Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was an Akimel O'odham 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 · Everyone knows the iconic image of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, but few know the tragic history of Ira Hayes -- one of the men pictured.

Mar 18, 2025 · A veteran from the Marine Corps League Tucson Detachment 007 holds onto a portrait of Ira Hayes while riding a float during a parade on the Gila River Indian Reservation in 2024. The U.S. Department of Defense says it's restoring online content about a Pima Indian from Arizona seen in one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century.

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.

Mar 19, 2025 · The U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 removed a webpage about Ira Hayes, a Marine and Pima Nation member best known for being one of the six men who raised a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during...

Ira Hayes was one of the six Marines who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II, a moment captured in the iconic photograph by Joe Rosenthal.

Jan 8, 2018 · Ira Hayes, an introspective 22-year-old Native America from the Pima tribe and a U.S. Marine, on February 23, 1945, in the midst of the Battle of Iwo Jima, was one of the patriot soldiers who raised the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi while the …

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 …

Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian Marine and one of the last surviving members of the Iwo Jima flag raising in World War II.

Feb 23, 2018 · Ira Hayes, 22, was a Pima American Indian from the Gila River Reservation in Arizona. Johnny Cash memorialized him in “The Ballad of Ira Hayes,” which recounts his tragic end. In the image ...