Marines raise the second U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. (Courtesy photograph)
Ira Hayes at Marine Corps Parachute School, Camp Gillespie, Calif., sometime in 1942. (Marine Corps photograph)Ira Hayes, left, and Henry Reed, right, chat with Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron, March 23, 1947. They were meeting the mayor to protest discrimination against Native Americans in housing. (DOD photograph)