John Bradley was the Navy corpsman embedded with the Marines in that
photo. He survived Iwo Jima and the war, and returned home to Antigo,
Wisconsin where he ran a funeral home until his death. He never spoke of
his war experiences, including the flag raising, and his family wasn't
aware of his having been awarded a Purple Heart and the Navy Cross until
finding them after his death. His son James wrote a book, "Flags of Our
Fathers", about the flag raising and chronicled the lives of the flag
raisers. It was later made into a movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
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On 2/23/2019 3:59 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
1945
U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
http://www.iwojima.com/raising/raisingb.htm
https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=350
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During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd
Platoon, E
Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest
of
Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position,
and
raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with them and
recorded the event. American soldiers fighting for control of Suribachi’s
slopes cheered the raising of the flag, and several hours later more
Marines headed up to the crest with a larger flag. Joe Rosenthal, a
photographer with the Associated Press, met them along the way and
recorded
the raising of the second flag along with a Marine still photographer
and a
motion-picture cameraman.
Rosenthal took three photographs atop Suribachi. The first, which showed
five Marines and one Navy corpsman struggling to hoist the heavy flag
pole,
became the most reproduced photograph in history and won him a Pulitzer
Prize. The accompanying motion-picture footage attests to the fact that
the
picture was not posed. Of the other two photos, the second was similar to
the first but less affecting, and the third was a group picture of 18
soldiers smiling and waving for the camera. Many of these men, including
three of the six soldiers seen raising the flag in the famous Rosenthal
photo, were killed before the conclusion of the Battle for Iwo Jima in
late
March.
By March 3, U.S. forces controlled all three airfields on the island, and
on March 26 the last Japanese defenders on Iwo Jima were wiped out. Only
200 of the original 22,000 Japanese defenders were captured alive. More
than 6,000 Americans died taking Iwo Jima, and some 17,000 were wounded.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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