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 ...

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

Following the U.S. Department of Defense’s recent directive to scrub so-called DEI from its military websites, the Pentagon ...

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 ...

Others pointed out that Hegseth's "tribute" seems even more hypocritical after the recent removal of a memorial page for Ira Hayes, a Native American soldier and Iwo Jima hero, from the US ...

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 ...

Others said Hegseth's "tribute" seems even more hypocritical after the recent removal of a memorial page for Ira Hayes, a Native American soldier and Iwo Jima hero, from the US Department of ...

The 80th anniversary commemoration of Iwo Jima on Saturday is set to be overshadowed ... but a description focusing on Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who was one of the six soldiers pictured.

Navajo Code Talkers and former U.S. Marine Ira Hayes [one of the Iwo Jima flag raisers]— it sent out a news release: "Everyone at the Defense Department loves Jackie Robinson, as well as the ...

“It’s unacceptable and extremely unfortunate that the many vital contributions of Native American soldiers — including Ira Hayes’ bravery during the Battle of Iwo Jima — appeared to have ...