Michael Strank

The Marines who raised the first flag were Lieutenant Schreier, Platoon Sergeant Ernest T. Thomas, Jr., Sergeant Henry O'Hanson, Corporal Charles W. Lindberg, and Privates First Class Louis C. Charlo and James Mitchells.

The six men immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the second flag raising were Sgt. Michael Strank, Pharmacist Mate 2C John H. Bradley, Corporal Harlan H.

Block, and Privates 1st Class Ira H. Hayes, Franklin R. Sousley, and Rene A. Gagnon.

The 28th Marines took Suribachi in three days at the cost of more than 500 troops.

rosenthal's pictures arrived at guam before lowry's were processed sent to the states for distribution and his flag-raising picture became one of the most famous photographs ever taken in the war or in any war Bennis M. Frank.

The six men who participated in the second or famous flag raising on Mount Suribachi were Marines, joined by a medical corpsman.

They were Sergeant Michael Strank, Pharmacist Mate 2C John H. Bradley, U.S. Navy, Corporal Harlan H.

Block, and PFCs Ira H. Hayes, Franklin R. Sousley, and Rene A. Gagnon.

I can't even imagine what his mother went through.

Behind him, Sergeant Michael Strank, who was born in Slovakia and moved with his family to Pennsylvania, where his father had found work in the coal mines for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

He enlisted in the Marines early in the war, before the US even entered it, and fought throughout the Pacific before landing on Iwo Jima.

Strank was described as, quote, "A Marine's Marine." Quote, "The kind of Marine you make movies about," who often told his men, "Follow me.