Victory Moment - Flags of our Fathers

What’s with the reuploads?

This and Letters From Iwo Jima, it is nice to see both perspectives.

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Clint Eastwood did an excellent job on this, and his companion piece, Letters Of Iwo Jima, for which I recall one of the actors from Otoko Tachi No Yamato, who portraid Uchida, starred in Eastwood's companion piece, who was the one waited for the Americans too commit suicide by taking some of the Americans with him, but never happened.
Take care, and all the best.

Is that the first flag raisers.

OORAH!!

I am and always be proud of my country

I forget his name, but I visited the grave of one of the men that raised the flag in the iconic picture. I live in Ohio, and my grandpa took me to the grave in Kentucky when I was about 9 or 10.

I forgot to add that fellow Canadian, Adam Beach was great in this feature.
Take care, and all the best.

Moments like this I remember the greatest generation, facing death itself to fight tyranny🇺🇸

Bro, I was looking for this clip today and was surprised there wasn’t one on your channel. What a coincidence!

Interesting Fact: a number of the first flag raiser were also Raiders and Paratroopers. In fact, Schrier and Snyder were both in D Company, 2nd Raiders at Guadalcanal. Charles Lindberg was also in G Company at Bougainville (D co was made into G Company in early 1943).
Incidentally, Schrier was also my grandfather’s platoon sergeant at Guadalcanal, leading half of D Company out of an ambush at Asamana. Dog Company’s Captain, Charles P MacAuliffe, would go on later to be a company commander in 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines.
Odd how small the Marine Corps was back then.

Crazy to think it still took weeks of fighting after this moment to totally control the island.

The dobberman was so confused

Hoooorayyyyyyyyyy

The victory is still far...

I appreciate how they show the Marines wearing field jackets. A lot of people assume every island battle in the Pacific was hot as hell, but the climate on Iwo Jima was quite mild (for a change).

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Typical cliche
Japanese can’t shoot shit
Japanese who had advantage of surprise in an ambush managed to hit not a damn thing

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My dad left Guam on Feb. 14th 1945 and arrived at Iwo Jima ten days later. The landing was on Feb. 19th 1945, and although he arrived five days after that, he saw plenty of action on that island.
Amazingly, he served from Nov. 6th 1943 at Bougainville, to March 28th 1945 when he helped to mop up Iwo Jima, and never got a scratch. It was only after he passed, and I got his military papers, that I found out his history during WWII.
He never ONCE talked about it to me, but he could chat with ANY OTHER MARINE for hours. I was never within earshot of those conversations because I wasn't a Marine. R.I.P. dad!

I swear the enthusiasm of these guys is contagious.

The most patriotic moment in American history and it’s never forgotten by the marines at Iwo Jima🫡🇺🇸🦅

I was fortunate enough to participate in the 60th anniversary of that battle on Iwo Jima! Semper Fi

All the men on the island cheering is one thing, but I think the real power of this is the all the ships blasting the foghorns and ringing their bells

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I heard a vet say everyone was shooting in celebration

I'm proud to say that a VFW member Eugene Iconetti actually saw the whole thing unfold with the 4th Marine Division, He's almost 100 and is from Teaneck NJ

Rising Storm 1 gunsounds

Propaganda a mas no poder. Solo superada por el 11 7 1969 y 09 11 2001

“I’m not in your way, am I?”
‘No you’re fine where you are!’
“Hey, there it goes!”

From what I can remember, that was the conversation the photographer had just as the flag was being raised.

Not sure if that was the first or second raising though

PFC Chuck Tatum and PFC Evanson are somewhere on that island seeing the flag being rose.

Is the Iggy mentioned the same marine who was tortured and killed

Been part of History

What movie is this?

Imagine being part of one of the US militaries most iconic moment of raising the flag, only to be killed 5 seconds later💀

I'm so happy Paul Walker was in this movie 💙

This doesn't nearly capture the enthusiasm of the moment the flag went up in real life the whole fleet let off with their horns, flares, rockets, tracers. It was like a massive 4th of July.

Shortly after Mount Suribachi was taken at approximately 10:20 AM on February 23, 1945, the United States flag was first flown atop the mountain.

Marine Captain Dave Severance, commander of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, was directed by Lieutenant Colonel Chandler W. Johnson, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, to send a platoon to capture and occupy Mount Suribachi's crest. Easy Company's executive officer, First Lieutenant Harold G. Schrier, who had taken over for the injured Third Platoon commander, John Keith Wells, offered to command a combat patrol of 40 men up the mountain. The 54-by-28-inch (137 cm × 71 cm) flag was taken from the battalion's transport ship, the USS Missoula, and given to Schrier by Lieutenant Colonel Johnson (or 1st Lieutenant George G. Wells, the battalion adjutant, whose responsibility it was to carry the flag). "Put it up if you reach the top," Johnson told Schrier. At 8 AM, Schrier gathered the patrol to start the ascent of the mountain.

Because the Japanese were being bombarded at the time, Schrier's patrol managed to reach the crater's rim at around 10:15 AM with little to no enemy fire, despite the large number of Japanese troops in the area. At approximately 10:30 AM, Schrier and two Marines tied the flag to a Japanese iron water pipe that was discovered on top. Schrier, with the help of Platoon Sergeant Ernest Thomas and platoon guide Sergeant Oliver Hansen, raised and planted the flagstaff. (On February 25, in a CBS press interview aboard the flagship USS Eldorado, Thomas claimed that he, Schrier, and Hansen had raised the flag.) As soon as the national colors were raised, the men on the ships close to the beach and the Marines, sailors, and coast guardsmen on the beach below let out a loud cheer. The Japanese, who had so far remained in their cave bunkers, were alerted by the loud noise produced by the servicemen and the blasts of the ship horns. Schrier and his men near the flagstaff then came under fire from Japanese troops, but the Marines quickly eliminated the threat. Later, Schrier received a Silver Star Medal for a valiant act in March while commanding D Company, 2/28 Marines on Iwo Jima, and the Navy Cross for volunteering to lead the patrol up Mount Suribachi and raise the American flag.

Leatherneck magazine's Staff Sergeant Louis R. Lowery accompanied the patrol up Mount Suribachi and took pictures of the first flag flown there, followed by other photographers. Corporal Charles W. Lindberg assisted in the first flag-raising, as did Privates First Class James Michels, Harold Schultz, Raymond Jacobs (F Company radioman), Private Phil Ward, and Navy corpsman John Bradley [better source needed]. But from the northern side of Mount Suribachi, where fierce fighting would continue for several more days, this flag was too small to be seen clearly.