Franklin Sousley
Franklin Runyon Sousley was a United States Marine who was killed in action on Iwo Jima during World War II. He is one of the six flagraisers in the famous photograph of United States Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima in World War II.
Sousley was born in Hill Top, Kentucky, the second child born to Merle Duke Sousley and Goldie Mitchell . When he was two years old, his fiveyearold brother, Malcolm Brooks Sousley , died due to appendicitis. Franklin attended a tworoom schoolhouse in nearby Elizaville, and attended Fleming County High School in nearby Flemingsburg from ninth to twelfth grade. His younger brother Julian was born in May 1933, and his father died due to diabetes complications a year later, at age 35. At only nine years old, Franklin was the sole malefigure in the family, and assisted his mother in raising Julian. Julian died in a car accident onOctober 1951, at the age of 18. Sousley graduated from Fleming High School in May 1943, and resided in Dayton, Ohio as a worker in a refrigerator factory.
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