16,827~The six servicemen who raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima during World War II and who are memorialized in the dramatic 78-foot high Iwo Jima Monument in Arlington, Virginia are Michael Strank, Harlon H. Block, Franklin R. Sousley, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, and John H. Bradley.

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