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El cabo Harlon Block, que era el siguiente en la cadena de mando asumió el mando, aunque también murió pocas horas después por fuego de mortero japonés. Mike Strank fue enterrado en el Cementerio de la 5.ª División de Marines tras un funeral católico .
Harlon Henry Block (November 6, 1924 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps corporal who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps with seven high school classmates in February 1943. He subsequently became a Paramarine and participated in combat on Bougainville. After the Paramarines were disbanded in ...
17 de oct. de 2019 · The Marines identified the men as John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and Franklin Sousley. All were Marines except for Bradley, who was a Navy corpsman. After two amateur historians raised questions about the identities, a Marine panel in 2016 found that a flag raiser long believed to be Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class John Bradley was actually Pfc. Harold ...
23 de feb. de 2018 · Harlon Block, 21, was from Texas. He was second in command. Franklin Sousley was only 19. He was raised in Kentucky. Strank, Block, and Sousley never made it home from Iwo Jima.
Strank chose Corporal Harlon Block, Private First Class Ira Hayes, and Pfc. Sousley. On the way up the four Marines took telephone communication wire (or supplies). Private First Class Rene Gagnon , the Second Battalion's runner (messenger) for Easy Company, was ordered by Lt. Col. Johnson to take the replacement flag up the mountain and return with the first flag.
13 de mar. de 2019 · The iconic photograph, which depicts Sergeant Michael Strang, Corporal Harlon Block, Private First Class Rene Ganon, Corporal Ira Hayes, Corporal Harold Schultz, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley triumphantly raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, was actually the second of two flag-raising pictures taken that day.
24 de feb. de 2016 · Block and seven others from the school graduated in January 1943 and enlisted the following month. On Iwo Jima, an island where the Japanese determined they would blunt the advance of American troops bent on defeating Tojo's forces, Block and Sgt. Michael Strank were among those seen raising the flag.
