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 director ...

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.

Pfc. Ira Hayes, left, was one of the six Marines to appear in the famous World War II photograph ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ depicting the second flag-raising on the summit of Mount Suribachi on ...

The story behind ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,’ the most memorable photograph of World War II and one of the most-reproduced images in the history of photography, is told in ‘Flags of Our Fathers,’ ...

The Trump administration removed Ira Hayes' Native American heritage from the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo website. The Department of Defense cited "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs" as eroding ...

PHOENIX Ariz. (KPNX) — Arizona tribal leaders are calling on the Pentagon to restore military web pages that told the stories of Native American war heroes from Arizona. The web pages featured the ...

On February 23, 1945, Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured one of the most enduring images of WWII: six men raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima ...