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Flags of Our Fathers
Book by James Bradley and Ron Powers
For the film adaptation, see Flags of Our Fathers (film).
Flags of Our Fathers () is a book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about his father, NavycorpsmanJohn Bradley, and five United States Marines, who were made famous by Joe Rosenthal’sRaising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph.
The story follows the lives of Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hamilton Hayes, Michael Strank, Harlon Henry Block, and Franklin Runyon Sousley. The five Marines were a part of Easy Company, 28th Marines, 5th Marine Division. Strank was a sergeant, Block was a corporal who reported to Strank, and the rest of the Marines were privates first class.&#; John Bradley was a Navycorpsman who administered first aid to Easy Company.
Harlon block biography books Gagnon was questioned, Pfc. World War II [ edit ]. Parachutist Badge. Whilst the battle was still raging Rosenthal's photograph of the Marines was released and overnight gained the attention of the whole nation.The book is focused mainly on the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Marines who made the battle famous. The fighting on Iwo Jima was the only time in all of WWII in which US Marines suffered more casualties than the Japanese. Whilst the battle was still raging Rosenthal's photograph of the Marines was released and overnight gained the attention of the whole nation.
In the following weeks Strank, Block, and Sousley were killed in battle and their families were notified. Bradley, Gagnon, and Hayes were sent on the 7th War Bond Drive and became public heroes.
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Critical reception
The book spent 46 weeks on The New York Timesnonfiction bestseller list, spending six weeks at number one.
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Film adaptation
Shortly after the book's publication, Steven Spielberg acquired the option for the film rights via DreamWorks Pictures.
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Flag-raiser identity corrections
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Two of the six Marines featured in the book have since been determined not to be in the famous photograph.
Following an investigation, in the Marine Corps announced that the man previously identified as John Bradley had in fact been (then Private First Class) Harold Schultz, and in , the Corps announced that the man previously identified as Rene Gagnon had in fact been Marine Corporal Harold Keller.[2]
James Bradley was initially surprised to hear that the Marine Corps had started an investigation into the identities of the men in the flag-raising photo, but said "I'm interested in facts and truths, so that’s fine, but I don’t know what’s happening."[3] Soon after the announcement of the investigation, Bradley said he no longer believed his father had been in the photograph, citing research originally published in the Omaha World-Herald in [4]