One of the flag raisers that was in the photograph Mike Strank born in 1919 in Jarabenia, Czechoslovakia and was the leader and Sergeant, it was Mike who got the order to climb Mt. Suribachi.
Harlon Block was also a flag raiser was in the photograph that is so famous on Iwo Jima was born in 1924 in Yorktown, Texas and was second in command which he ended up taking charge when Mike died on Iwo Jima.
Franklin Sousley another flag raiser was born Sept. 19, 1925 in Hilltop, KY and was the last flag-raiser to die on Iwo Jima.
Ira Hayes also a contribute to the flag raising of the second flag was born January 12, 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona.
Rene Gagnon the last person to be apart of the second flag being rasied on Iwo Jima was born in Manchester, N.H. on March 7, 1925 and was the first survivor on Iwo Jima to come back to America.