![]() The six flag raisers train at Camp Pendleton, a huge Marine training camp between Los Angeles and San Diego, where they are assigned to the 3rd Platoon of the 28th Regiment, nicknamed Easy Company. After a stunning victory at Tarawa, "Howlin' Mad" Smith gains confidence in the valor of the Marines and focuses on planning amphibious assaults. As members of the Raiders outfit in the Pacific, Mike Strank, Ira Hayes, and Harlon Block fight at Bougainville. Rene Gagnon enlisted at the age of seventeen in May 1943. Jack Bradley decided to enlist in the Navy, in hopes of avoiding battle. Harlon Block enlisted with his entire Weslaco High football team, much to the chagrin of his mother, Belle, a Seventh-Day Adventist. Ira Hayes surprised his Pima tribe by enlisting in the Marines, since the Pima were a peaceful people, and became a USMC Paratrooper. Mike Strank enlisted in the Marines before America entered the war. As a result, in order to write this book, his son, James, set out to research the lives of his own father, from Appleton, Wisconsin Rene Gagnon, from Manchester, New Hampshire Harlon Block, from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas Franklin Sousley, from Hilltop, Kentucky Mike Strank, a Czech immigrant raised in Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from a reservation near Phoenix, Arizona.Īfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, America's attitude toward the war changed now Americans were involved in a "two-ocean war." American citizens jumped at the chance to make sacrifices for their country. and Paul Haggis.John Bradley kept to himself regarding his memories of Iwo Jima, the flag raising, and what followed. on October 20, 2006, was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by William Broyles, Jr. The film adaptation Flags of Our Fathers, which opened in the U.S. ![]() The book follows the lives of the six flag-raisers through their early lives of innocence, military training, fierce combat and afterward, when they were sent on tours to raise money for war bonds. Shortly after the book's publication, Steven Spielberg acquired the option on the film rights for DreamWorks Pictures. The book, published in May 2000 by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, spent 46 weeks on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list, spending six weeks at number one. Strank was a Sergeant who refused several promotions during the battle in order to "Bring his boys back to their mothers." Block was a Corporal who reported to Strank, and the rest were Privates in the Marines, except for John Bradley, a Navy Corpsman who administered first aid to Easy Company of 2d Battalion, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division, the company to which all the flag raisers were assigned. The flag raisers included John Bradley (a Navy corpsman, and the author's father), Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, Harlon Block, and Franklin Sousley the latter three men died later in the battle. Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is a New York Times bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the five United States Marines and one United States Navy Corpsman who would eventually be made famous by Joe Rosenthal's lauded photograph of the flag raising at Iwo Jima, one of the costliest and most horrifying battles of World War II's Pacific Theater.
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