Ira Hayes was captured in the photo Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima—but he couldn’t escape the ghosts of the men who fell at his side an ocean away.


Ira Hayes (aka “Chief Falling Cloud”) was one of the six men famously captured in the photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. His stoic patriotism as an American and Pima Indian made him a hero at home—but he couldn’t escape the ghosts of the men who fell at his side an ocean away.