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Michael Strank (November 10, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the Marines who raised the second U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, as shown in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by ...
Sgt. Michael Strank, WWII Welcome to this web site honoring U.S. Marine Sergeant Michael Strank, one of the six men who raised the United States flag over the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima during World War II.
THE UNCOMMON VALOR OF MICHAEL STRANK Immortality was the furthest thing from Sgt. Michael Strank's mind on February 23, 1945. That's when the Western Pennsylvania native led a four-man patrol from Company E's Second Platoon to the 550-foot summit of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima and raised an American battle flag. Strank, who was on his second ...
Sgt Michael Strank - Our Flag Still Waves. In the annals of time and history, Sergeant Michael Strank of the United States Marine Corps will forever be known as one of the six men who raised “the flag” on top of Mount Suribachi during the.
Sergeant Michael Strank. Michael Strank, participant in the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, was born at Conemaugh, Pennsylvania, on 10 November 1919, the son of Vasil and Martha Strank, natives of Czechoslovakia (his father was also known as Charles Strank).
22 ott 2019 · The other men in the photo are Pfc. Franklin Sousley, Sgt. Michael Strank and Cpl. Ira Hayes. Block, Strank and Sousley were killed in action while fighting to hold the island.
23 feb 2022 · Ambassador Bridget Brink. Michael Strank was a Slovak-American U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, famously pictured as one of the six U.S. soldiers raising the U.S. flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945.
