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Henry Oliver Hansen (December 14, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was a member of the patrol that captured Mount Suribachi, where he helped raise the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. [1]
Sergeant “Hank” Hansen was killed in action on Iwo Jima on 01-03-1945, age 25, Sergeant Hansen, Platoon Sergeant Thomas, and the three second flag-raisers who were killed on Iwo Jima were buried in the 5th Marine Division cemetery on the island.
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Hansen was born on December 14, 1919 in Somerville, Massachusetts, with one sister and three brothers. He graduated from Somerville High School in 1938 and joined the US Marines at age 18 and trained as a Paramarine. After the Paramarines disbanded in February 1944, Hansen was transferred to the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, US 5th Marine Division.
Sgt. Hansen was a member of 3rd Platoon of E Company of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division that landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. On February 23, he was one of members of the 40-man patrol led by 1st Lt. Harold Schrier who climbed Mount Suribachi and raised the first American flag on top of it and were photographed ...
There became a disagreement after the battle over the identity of the Marine at the base of the 2nd flagpole in the famous photograph of the second flag-raising. Surviving second flag-raisers of the battle, Rene Gagnon and Bradley, had initially identified this person as Hansen. Over a year and a half later, a Congressional investigation revealed t...
A Marine Corps investigation of the identities of the six second flag-raisers began in December 1946 and concluded in January 1947 that it was Cpl. Block and not Sgt. Hansen at the base of the flagstaff in the Rosenthal photograph, and that no blame was to be placed on anyone in this matter. The identities of the other five second flag-raisers were...
Sgt. Hansen is buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific near Honolulu on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The Henry O. Hansen Memorial Park, in his home town of Somerville, was named in his honor in June 2004.
Henry Oliver "Hank" Hansen (December 14, 1919 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who was killed in action on March 1, 1945 during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He participated in the first United States flag raising over Iwo Jima, and was, for a time, mistakenly...
American (1776 - present, Republic) Biography. 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 Oliver Hansen was killed in action on March 1, 1945 and Platoon Sergeant Ernest Ivy Thomas Jr on March 3, 1945. It was soon determined that the flag was too small to be seen by the thousands of Marines fighting on the other side of Mount Suribachi.
United States Marine Corps Sergeant. One of the six Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945, and photographed by Lou Lowery.
