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| Ira Hayes at Marine Corps Paratroop School, 1943 | Raising the US flag atop Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945 |
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| US Marines posing with the second flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945 | Ira Hayes, left, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, seated, and Sgt Henry Reed, survivor of the Bataan Death March, at Bowron's office, Los Angeles, California, United States, 23 Mar 1947 |
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