Joe Rosenthal's Raising of the Flag on Iwo Jima is one of ... Today is the 79th anniversary of that accomplishment. Ira Hayes, born Jan. 12, 1923, near Sacaton at the Gila River Indian Community ...

A story about Pima Indian Marine Ira Hayes, a reluctant hero who was immortalized in the famous Associated Press photo of the WWII Iwo Jima flag raising. Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Indian from the ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...