The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
Hayes knew that Belle Block was right.
Block was killed on March 1, 1945 — the same day as Strank, possibly by the same mortar round.
He was nineteen.
Private First Class Franklin Sousley was from Flemingsburg, Kentucky.
He was nineteen years old, the youngest of the group.
He had grown up on a tobacco farm and enlisted in the Marines in the spring of 1944.
By the accounts of those who knew him, he was cheerful and well-liked, someone who kept the men around him in better spirits.
Sousley was killed on March 21, 1945, by a Japanese sniper.
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