One of the six American Army flags on Iwo Jima in World War II was an Indian, Navajo or an Indian of other nationalities?

The photo of "flag planting" was taken on the fourth day of the battle of Iwo Jima.

1945 On February 23rd, Colonel Chandler Johnson ordered a flag to be planted on the dormant volcano Mount Bo Zhe. Joe rosenthal, a photojournalist of Associated Press, squatted on a pile of sandbags, set the shutter at 1/400 seconds and took the most famous photo in the history of World War II. The six main characters in the photo are Rene Gagne, john bradley, Mike Strankhe, Harlan Brock, Frank Susley and Ella Hayes. Together, they put up the American flag on a 20-foot-long pipe (belonging to Unit 5 of the 28th Regiment of the 5th Division of the US Marine Corps).

After that, the situation of these six people:

Three of them were killed in the battle: 25-year-old Mike Strankhe was suspected of being killed by friendly bullets; Harlan Brock, 20, was a football star in high school. Frank Susley, 19 years old.

The other three survivors, except john bradley, have no trace of life since they left the army. After hitting a wall one after another, john bradley's son James Bradley found another Ron Bowles, a war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner during World War II. They investigated separately and finally got the information of these two people. However, they all died like James' father: René Gagnion died of a heart attack at the age of 54, which was the opposite of the heroic welcome he received when he returned to China. He has been a doorman in a company for a long time. As for the last flag-bearer, Ella Hayes, after retiring from the army, James found that there were signs of Indian settlement in Arizona. He suffered multiple gunshot wounds in the war, and he suffered from complications because the government did not give timely medical help. He was troubled by injuries for ten years and finally died of alcoholism.

Ella Hayes' death finally liberated him. As johnny cash sang in a song, "Just call him Ira Hayes, a drunk, because he can't respond anymore. Not an Indian who is addicted to alcohol, nor a marine who participated in the war. "