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Ira Hayes

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Marine Cpl. Ira Hayes, American Indian who raised the flag

 

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Bob Dylan - The Ballad of Ira Hayes (HD FOOTAGE from the Tuscarora Reservation, 1975)

 

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Peter LaFarge - The Ballad of Ira Hayes

 

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Kris Kristofferson Ballad of Ira Hayes (Johnny Cash tribute 1999 - with the bugler)

 

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The three surviving members of the Iwo Jima flag raising: Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon,...HD Stock Footage

Ira Hamilton Hayes was a Pima Native American and a United States Marine who was one of the six flag raisers immortalized in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Pima Indian Reservation located in the Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 26, 1942 and, after recruit training, volunteered to become a Paramarine. He fought in the Bougainville and Iwo Jima campaigns in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.