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Hill Top, Fleming County, Kentucky
Hill Top
is an
unincorporated community
in
Fleming County
,
Kentucky, United States
.
Hill
Top is located at the junction of
Kentucky Route 170
and
Kentucky Route 1347
, southwest of
Flemingsburg
.
Notable residents
Franklin Sousley, one of the men shown in the famous
Joe Rosenthal
Associated Press
photograph of
US Marines
and Sailors
raising the second US flag on Iwo Jima
, was born in Hill Top on
19 September
1925. He was
killed in action
on
Iwo Jima
after having been shot by a Japanese
sniper
on
21
March 1945
, about a month after the famous photograph was captured. He was
only 19
years
of age
. His body was first interred on Iwo Jima, but was later returned home for his final interment on
May 8
, 1947, in
Elizaville Cemetery
.