Harold G. Schrier

Harold George Schrier was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who served in World War II and the Korean War and received the Navy Cross, the nations second highest military award for valor. He is best known for being the Marine officer who led a 40man patrol to the top of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima to capture the summit and raise the United States flag on February 23, 1945.

Schrier was born in Corder, Missouri, onOctober 1916. He attended high school in Lexington, Missouri.

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