Ira Hayes is arguably Arizona’s most iconic World War II hero, as one of six Marines who famously raised the American flag at ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American, was born in 1923 in a small adobe house in Arizona. The oldest of six children, he was said to have been quiet and reserved. Hayes was 18 when Japan declared ...

Ira Hayes played himself, for a few seconds, in the 1949 “Sands of Iwo Jima,” the balderdashed John Wayne version of events. Hayes’ fleeting seconds of rent-a-celebrity in that context felt ...

Just a couple of years after the Second World War, John Wayne starred in Sands of Iwo Jima, a movie reenacting it. At 42, the Hollywood actor felt he was too old to play Sgt John M Stryker, and at one ...

Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six Marines photographed hoisting a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, as an emblem of the “contributions and sacrifices Native Americans have made to the ...

Pfc. Ira Hayes, left, was one of the six Marines to appear in the famous World War II photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ depicting the second flag-raising on the summit of Mount ...

Ira Hayes, alongside five other Marines, raised the U.S. flag on the island of Iwo Jima at the summit of Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Photo by Joe Rosenthal | Associated Press/public ...

The Trump administration removed Ira Hayes' Native American heritage from the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo website. The Department of Defense cited "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs" as ...