He joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division at Camp Pendleton, California and on October 24, Block was promoted to corporal.
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Block then transferred to Weslaco High School in Weslaco, and was remembered as an outgoing student with many friends.
Recounted is the story of how Ira Hayes knew that it was actually Corporal Harlon Block in the photograph, and tried to bring the misidentification to the attention of the Marine Corps, but was told that since both Hansen and Block were dead, he should let it go.
Harlon Block, one of the men from the famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima was enrolled in this school after the Block Family relocated to this city.
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