 Michael Strank, a Rusyn American and one of the US Marines pictured in the photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima", was raised in Franklin.Franklin is located in southwestern Cambria County at (40.343073, -78.881873), in the valley of the Little Conemaugh River.The river forms the northwest boundary of the borough, with East Conemaugh and a small portion of Johnstown on the opposite side.