Rene Gagnon

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rene Arthur Gagnon (March 7, 1925 ? October 12, 1979) was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Gagnon was born March 7, 1925 in Manchester, New Hampshire, the only child of French Canadian immigrants from Sainte-Luce, Quebec, Henri Gagnon and Irene Marcotte. Rene grew up without a father. His parents separated when he was an infant, though they never divorced. When he was old enough, Rene worked alongside his mother at a local shoe factory. He also worked as a bicycle messenger boy for the local Western Union. Rene was drafted in 1943 and elected to join the Marine Corps.... Mehr