Two nights later, while Doc is helping a wounded Marine, Iggy is abducted by Japanese troops and dragged into a tunnel. Later that day, Hank is shot in the chest and dies, and Harlon is killed by machine gun fire. During the fight over the nest, Mike is hit by a U.S. On March 1, the Second Platoon is ambushed from a Japanese machine gun nest. Mike, Doc, Ira, Rene, and two other Marines (Corporal Harlon Block and Private First Class Franklin Sousley) are photographed by Joe Rosenthal as they raise the second flag. Rene is sent up with Second Platoon to replace the first flag with a second one for Forrestal to take. Colonel Chandler Johnson decides his 2nd Battalion deserves the flag more.
Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who witnesses the flag raising as he lands on the beach, requests the flag for himself. On February 23, the platoon under command of Sergeant Hank Hansen reaches the top of Mount Suribachi and hoists the United States flag to cheers from the beaches and the ships. Doc saves the lives of several Marines under fire, which later earns him the Navy Cross. Two days later, the Marines attack Mount Suribachi under a rain of Japanese artillery and machine gun fire, as the Navy bombards the mountain. Casualties are heavy, but the beaches are secured. The beaches are silent and Private First Class Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski wonders if the defenders are all dead before Japanese heavy artillery and machine guns open fire on the advancing Marines and the Navy ships. The next day, February 19, 1945, the Marines land in Higgins boats and LVTs. Sergeant Mike Strank is put in charge of Second Platoon. The Navy bombards suspected Japanese positions for three days. Also, until October 16, 2019, Rene Gagnon was also misidentified.Īs three US servicemen – Marine Private First Class Ira Hayes, Private First Class Rene Gagnon, and Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John "Doc" Bradley – are feted as heroes in a war bond drive, they reflect on their experiences via flashback.Īfter training at Camp Tarawa in Hawaii, the 28th Marine Regiment 5th Marine Division sails to invade Iwo Jima. Until June 23, 2016, the author Bradley's father John Bradley, Navy corpsman, was misidentified as being one of the figures who raised the second flag, and incorrectly depicted on the bronze statue memorial, as one of the five flag-raisers of the 32-foot (9.8 m) monument. The companion film Letters from Iwo Jima was released in Japan on December 9, 2006, and in the United States on December 20, 2006, two months after the release of Flags of Our Fathers on October 20, 2006. Although it was a box office failure, only grossing $65.9 million against a $90 million budget, the film received favorable reviews from critics. The film is taken from the American viewpoint of the Battle of Iwo Jima, while its companion film, Letters from Iwo Jima, which Eastwood also directed, is from the Japanese viewpoint of the battle.
It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of that event on their lives.
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr.
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