Harlon Block
✓ Source-basedstableUnited States Marine (1924-1945)
United StatesLived 1924 to 1945 · aged 20Fame49.5
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Harlon Henry Block was a United States Marine Corps corporal who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
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Photos 10
Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima
Marine Corps photo of the two flags on Mt. Suribachi. Block (backside) is helping to plant the flagstaff he helped raise.
Joe Rosenthal's "Gung Ho" photo. Block's face is hidden, and he is unlabeled, but the top of his head is visible, center, behind Sgt. Henry Hansen, (soft cap)
Harlon Block's grave on the grounds of the Iwo Jima Memorial in Harlingen, Texas
The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia
Second flag-raising photographAwards 2
Connected to Harlon 6
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Lived 1924 to 1945 · aged 20
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