Once in life, a second time in death, Pfc. Ira Hayes — World War II veteran, Iwo Jima flag-raiser, Pima Indian — ran head-on into the homefront propaganda machine. He wasn’t the first, but ...

Ira Hamilton Hayes, born in 1923, was a Pima Indian, raised on the Gala Reservation in Arizona. The 15,000 Pima who lived there were known to be peaceful and educated when many of the Native ...

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 WWII.

Among those six Marines in Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was Ira Hayes, a 19-year-old Native American from the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona.

Hayes was one of six Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima during World War II in 1945. Piestewa was a U.S. Army soldier who was killed while serving in the Iraq War in 2003.

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 WWII.