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Harlon Block
|Harlon Block
|Birth name
|Harlon Henry Block
November 6, 1924
Yorktown, Texas
|March 1, 1945
(aged 20)
Iwo Jima, Japan
|United States
|United States Marine Corps
|Years of service
|1943 – 1945
|E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division
|Purple Heart Medal
Combat Action Ribbon
Presidential Unit Citation
Harlon Henry Block (November 6, 1924 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine who was killed in action during World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps in November 1943 and subsequently participated in combat on Bougainville and Iwo Jima. He is best known as one of the six men photographed raising the flag on Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945.
Early life[edit]
Block was born in Yorktown, Texas, the third of six children to Edward Frederick Block and Ada Belle Brantley, a Seventh day-Adventist family.[1][2] The Block children were: Edward, Jr., Maurine, Harlon, Larry, Corky, and Melford.[3]
Edward Frederick Block was a World War I veteran and supported his family by working as a dairy farmer.[4]
In hopes of improving the family, the Block family relocated to Weslaco, Texas, a small town located in the Rio Grande Valley. His father became a dairy farmer, and the children attended a Seventh-day Adventist private school. Harlon Block was expelled in his freshman year when he refused to tell the principal which student had vandalized the school. Block then transferred to Weslaco High School and was remembered as an outgoing student with many friends. A natural athlete, Block led the Weslaco Panther Football Team to the Conference Championship. He was honored as "All South Texas End".
World War II[edit]
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Block and twelve of his high school football teammates enlisted in the Marine Corps through the Selective Service System at San Antonio on February 18, 1943. After basic training in San Diego, he took parachute training and qualified as a Paramarine. He was promoted to private first class on May 22, 1943.
- Paramarines
He was sent to the Pacific Theater. He arrived at New Caledonia on November 15, 1943, where he served as a member of Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Marine Parachute Regiment, I Marine Amphibious Corps. On December 21, he landed on Bougainville and participated in the Bougainville Campaign. The parachute regiment disbanded on February 29, 1944, and he was sent back to San Diego, California. He joined Second Platoon, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California. He was promoted to corporal on October 24, 1944.
- Battle of Iwo Jima
Block landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. He participated in the second American flag-raising on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. Block idolized and followed his rifle platoon squad leader Sgt. Michael Strank without question as his assistant squad leader, until Strank was killed on March 1, according to the book, Flags of Our Fathers. Block assumed command of the squad. Later the same day, while leading the men during an attack toward Nishi Ridge, he was mortally wounded by an enemy mortar round explosion. Block's last words were, "They killed me!". [5]
Military awards[edit]
Block didn't receive the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal because it required four years of service at that time. The 5⁄16 silver star on his Presidential Unit Citation ribbon is a World War II battle star for Iwo Jima. He is credited with the following military awards:
- Purple Heart Medal
- Combat Action Ribbon[6]
- Presidential Unit Citation with 5⁄16 silver star
- American Campaign Medal.
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three 3⁄16 bronze stars
- World War II Victory Medal.
- Parachutist Badge
- Rifle Sharpshooter Badge
Flag raising controversy and burial[edit]
In the battle aftermath, controversy arose as to the real identity of one of the Marines who planted the American flag in the famous photograph of the second flag-raising on Mount Suribachi. When Block's mother first viewed Joe Rosenthal's iconic flag raising photograph in the Weslaco newspaper on February 25, just two days after the photo was taken, she immediately exclaimed, "That's Harlon", pointing to the figure on the far right. However, flag-raiser and Easy Company runner Rene Gagnon, mistakenly identified the person as Sergeant Hank Hansen of Boston, another former Paramarine and a member of Third Platoon who was involved in the first flag-raising earlier that morning. Another flag-raiser John Bradley, a corpsman from Third Platoon, concurred with Gagnon at that time.
Block's mother never wavered in her belief that it was Harlon in the photo insisting, "I know my boy", yet no one believed her. Some eighteen months later, a Congressional investigation revealed that it was indeed Block and not Hansen in the photograph. Fellow former Paramarine and flag-raiser Ira Hayes was instrumental after the war in proving Block's involvement in the famous photograph, and in the end, both Gagnon and Bradley agreed that "it could be Block". In fact, Hayes had told Marine officials (and Block's father shortly before the investigation) after he left Iwo Jima and was identified as a flag-raiser, that the sixth flag raiser was Block, but since the Marines had already made announcements that Hansen had been identified, he was told not to make waves.[7]Block, Hayes, and Franklin Sousley, another flag-raiser who was killed in action on Iwo Jima, were all members of Strank's squad and close friends. Only Hayes, Bradley, and Gagnon survived the battle of Iwo Jima.
- Burial site
Block was originally buried in the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima in 1945. In January 1949, he was re-interred in Weslaco, Texas. In 1995, his body was moved to a burial place at the Marine Military Academy near its Iwo Jima monument in Harlingen, Texas.[8]
Portrayal in film[edit]
Harlon Block is featured in the 2006 Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood film Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Eastwood, Spielberg and Robert Lorenz. In the movie, Block is portrayed by American actor Benjamin Walker. His parents are portrayed by Christopher Curry and Judith Ivey. The film is based on the 2000 book of the same title.
See also[edit]
- Marine Corps War Memorial
- Flags of Our Fathers
- Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
- Shadow of Suribachi: Raising The Flags on Iwo Jima
- Meliton Kantaria - Soviet flag raiser over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.
- Mikhail Yegorov - Soviet flag raiser over the Reichstag in Berlin, 1945.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harlon Block.
- ^ Biograph from the Handbook of Texas Online.
- ^ "Famed Iwo Jima flag raisers gone but not forgotten". Marines.mil. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- ^ Bradley, p. 31.
- ^ Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, p. 29.
- ^ Bradley, James (May 2000). Flags of Our Fathers. New York: Bantam Books. pp. 232–233. ISBN 0-553589-34-2.
- ^ Combat Action Ribbon (1969): Retroactive from December 7, 1941: Public Law 106-65--October 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 588, G, 564
- ^ Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers. p. 417.
- ^ "Harlon Block". Find a Grave. Retrieved September 22, 2010.


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Photos and Description of this 3 bedroom holiday cottage in Dunmanway
An Grianan is a delightful stone-clad cottage located next to a working farm just a few miles from the town of Clonakilty in County Cork. With three bedrooms (two doubles with en-suite and a ground floor single), this cottage sleeps five people in comfort. Along with a family bathroom and a fabulous fitted kitchen with dining area, the cottage also offers a sitting room which opens out onto a patio where you can relax after a long day's sightseeing. The cottage also boasts a lawned garden with outside furniture and off road parking for two cars. Located just a few miles from a range of beautiful beaches, An Grianan is the ideal cottage for a fabulous family holiday.
Details for holiday cottage An Grianan, 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 5, 2 Bathrooms
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- pets considered
- smoking allowed