It’s widely known that the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima, a Japanese territory, became the site of an iconic World War Two battle. On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines mounted an operation to take the island, which Japan had turned into a strategic military base. Four days later, after fierce fighting, they took the island’s tallest peak, Mount Suribachi, and some of them planted the Stars and Stripes on the summit. One of the men who helped raise the flag was Private Ira Hayes. That single event would define the rest of his life.
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