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Weslaco,
Texas
Harlon Block
One of the men
who
raised the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. |
Image 7 - Harlon
Block and Classmates /
Teammates / Fellow Marines / Pall Bearers 1943
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From
left to right: Leo Ryan, Carl Sims, Ben Guess, Leo LaDuke, Pete
Hall, Glen Cleckler, Robert Sooter, and Harlon Block.
Photo
Courtesy Weslaco Museum
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This
photograph was taken for a special graduation when these eight young
men of Weslaco High School Football Team enrolled in the Marine
Corps in 1943.
Harlon Block, far right, was one of the men who raised
the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. One week after the
incident, Corporal Block was killed in an assault on a Japanese
position and buried there in the huge cemetery. He was later returned
to Weslaco in 1949 where all seven
of his former classmates served as pallbearers. The caption reports
that 20 Weslaco High School students and a teacher died in WWII.
The Harlon Block Memorial: 1100 Vo-Tech Drive (The Texas
National Guard Armory)
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