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Harold G. Schrier
Colonel Harold George Schrier (October 17 1916 - June 3 1971) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps, recipient of the Navy Cross, the nation's second highest award for valor, and a combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He is most noted as one of the six Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi, during the Battle of Iwo Jima on February 23 1945.
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