Flags of Our Fathers
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima...wartime experiences. As a catharsis, James Bradley spent four years interviewing the families of all the flag raisers, and published Flags of Our Fathers, a definitive book on the flag raising and its participants. This book inspired a... In this article: Joe Rosenthal, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Iwo Jima, and Felix de Weldon |
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Cele--bitchy | October 26, 2009
Director Paul Haggis' scathing letter resigning from Scientology
...quit the organization. Among the acclaimed Haggis' many credits: he wrote Million Dollar Baby and Flags of Our Fathers for Clint Eastwood; and he produced/directed and wrote Crash for which he won an Oscar. He has an all-around stellar...
In this article: Paul Haggis, Tommy Davis, Oscar, Radar, Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Hollywood, St. Petersburg Times, and Hollywood Reporter
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www.washingtonpost.com | October 14, 2006
Clint Eastwood, Rallying 'Round 'Flags'
...your face being well-known." Eastwood, in reading "Flags of Our Fathers," found the American-Japanese conflict so fascinating he decided to make a companion film, this time from the Japanese point of view. He seems taken with Tadamichi...
In this article: Clint Eastwood, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Ira Hayes, Academy Awards, James Bradley, Iwo Jima, and Akira Kurosawa
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Wikipedia | August 16, 2009
James Bradley (author)
...photo ever taken. In 2000, Bradley published Flags of Our Fathers, which tells the story of six U.S. Marines including his own Navy corpsman father, John Bradley, raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. In that book, which...
In this article: John Bradley, James Bradley, Battle of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, World War II, USS Finback, Flyboys: A True Story of Courage, U.S. Marines, and H. W. Bush
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'Valley of Elah' Spins An All-Too-Timeless Tale
...politics. The writer-director is the busiest man in Hollywood, Paul Haggis, who also wrote "Crash," and wrote "Letters From Iwo Jima," "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Million Dollar Baby" for Clint Eastwood. He reportedly hoped that...
In this article: In the Valley of Elah, Paul Haggis, Million Dollar Baby, Playboy, Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Mark Boal, and Hollywood
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PR Newswire | October 03, 2007
Conemaugh Marine Who Helped Raise Flag at Iwo Jima Honored With Hall of Fame Induction
...of a book published in 2000 and a Hollywood movie made by Clint Eastwood six years later. Both the book and movie were titled "Flags of Our Fathers." Born in Jarabenia, Czechoslovakia, Strank lived in Conemaugh prior to beginning his service...
In this article: Michael Strank, Iwo Jima, 5th Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, Presidential Unit Citation, World War II Victory Medal, World War II, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, and Battle of Iwo Jima
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American Association of Port Authorities to Hold Its 97th Annual Convention in Anchorage, Sept. 21-25
Serving as the convention's keynote speaker will be James Bradley, noted author of the New York Times' #1 best-seller, "Flags of Our Fathers," from which the Clint Eastwood-directed movie of the same name was released in late 2006. The...
In this article: American Association of Port Authorities, Anchorage, James Bradley, and Alaska
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Flags Of Our Fathers (2000) is the 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. 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. Strank 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, the company to which all the flag raisers were assigned.
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. Shortly after the book's publication, Steven Spielberg optioned the film rights for DreamWorks Pictures.
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.
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