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    Iconic Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Monument, Depicting Pima Indian Marine Ira H. Hayes, Is on the Auction Block On Friday, February 22, at 1 p.m./Eastern, Bonhams of New York is holding an auction to sell a collection of WWII items and military memoriabilia entitled, “World War II: The Pacific Theater.” (For a special photo gallery with photographs of items from the collection being auctioned by Bonhams on February 22, click here.) Among the array of items to be sold is the original Iwo Jima monument, a 20-foot-tall, 10,000 pound statue created by Felix de Weldon which depicts the scene captured in a famous photograph by James Rosenthal of the raising of the American flag by U.S Marines at the battle of Iwo Jima. Among the six soldiers depicted was Private First Class Ira H. Hayes, Pima, of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona.

    Iconic Iwo Jima Flag-Raising Monument, Depicting Pima Indian Marine Ira H. Hayes, Is on the Auction Block

    On Friday, February 22, at 1 p.m./Eastern, Bonhams of New York is holding an auction to sell a collection of WWII items and military memoriabilia entitled, “World War II: The Pacific Theater.” (For a special photo gallery with photographs of items from the collection being auctioned by Bonhams on February 22, click here.) Among the array of items to be sold is the original Iwo Jima monument, a 20-foot-tall, 10,000 pound statue created by Felix de Weldon which depicts the scene captured in a famous photograph by James Rosenthal of the raising of the American flag by U.S Marines at the battle of Iwo Jima. Among the six soldiers depicted was Private First Class Ira H. Hayes, Pima, of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona.

    Source indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com

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