• Flags of Our Fathers

Date of birth:

December 14th, 1919 (Boston/Massachusetts, United States)

Date of death:

March 1st, 1945 (Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Japan)

Buried on:

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Plot: O. Grave: 392.

Nationality:

American

Sergeant Henry O. Hansen took part in the first flag raising over Iwo Jima on Mount Suribachi, and was, for a time, mistakenly identified as one of the six men in the famous photograph of the second flag raising.
Sergeant Henry O. Hansen was killed in action seven days later.

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• Photo 1: Bill Gonyo
• - American Battle Monuments Commission
  

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