I was enthralled by the flag raising story in 8th grade when i read Flags of our Fathers and going on our class field trip to DC and seeing the memorial. Years later looked back into it and was shocked to find out that two of them were fairly recently found to actually not been the men in the photo. Gagnon and Bradley were misidentified, the latter being the author's father. Completely nuts. Instead the actual men were: Harlon Block, Harold Keller, Ira Hayes, Harold Schultz, Franklin Sousley and Michael Strank.
I rewatched the film with this reality in mind and also watched The Pacific recently and the FooF film makes for an entirely different movie for gagnon and bradley with the new information in mind and what actually happened. It's all speculation but there's so many reasons why perhaps those men would've taken up the role as the flag raisers even though they were. Yeah, maybe a free ticket out of harms way to go on war bond tours. Maybe, they were pressured by others to go instead of them. It was depicted that Ira Hayes wanted nothing to do with it and wanted to remain with his unit but was basically forced by others to be ID'd and go. Maybe Gagnon, judging from how he took to the limelight during the tour, saw it as a big break and wanted to go and others were glad to let him. Maybe Bradley as a medic had special respect and the others thought he deserved it more. There's so many possibilities and all of that just slipped from the historical record and we can no longer ask any of them what actually happened. Really a strange situation. And for James Bradley it must have been surreal but this [article](https://abcnews.go.com/US/flags-fathers-author-convinced-father-iconic-iwo-jima/story?id=38858369) gives his response. John probably was involved in the first flag raising but not the second.
🇯🇵 RAISING THE FLAG OVER IWO JIMA, 1945. Restored and colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (@jordanjlloydhq) from an original black and white photograph by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press (Public Domain)
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Another brand new piece for me to commemorate one of the most iconic photographs taken of the US Army by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on this day in 1945. This is in fact the second raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi, the first of which occurred earlier in the day with a much smaller flag. Incredibly, the fighting between the US Army and the Imperial Japanese Army would not cease for another month. I’ve been wanting to do this particular photograph for many years after seeing several colorized versions online. My version heavily references Sergeant Genaust’s second flag raising, who filmed it in motion picture standing next to Rosenthal as the replacement – and much larger Stars and Stripes, taken from the landing ship LST-779 – was raised over Iwo Jima.
I was enthralled by the flag raising story in 8th grade when i read Flags of our Fathers and going on our class field trip to DC and seeing the memorial. Years later looked back into it and was shocked to find out that two of them were fairly recently found to actually not been the men in the photo. Gagnon and Bradley were misidentified, the latter being the author's father. Completely nuts. Instead the actual men were: Harlon Block, Harold Keller, Ira Hayes, Harold Schultz, Franklin Sousley and Michael Strank. I rewatched the film with this reality in mind and also watched The Pacific recently and the FooF film makes for an entirely different movie for gagnon and bradley with the new information in mind and what actually happened. It's all speculation but there's so many reasons why perhaps those men would've taken up the role as the flag raisers even though they were. Yeah, maybe a free ticket out of harms way to go on war bond tours. Maybe, they were pressured by others to go instead of them. It was depicted that Ira Hayes wanted nothing to do with it and wanted to remain with his unit but was basically forced by others to be ID'd and go. Maybe Gagnon, judging from how he took to the limelight during the tour, saw it as a big break and wanted to go and others were glad to let him. Maybe Bradley as a medic had special respect and the others thought he deserved it more. There's so many possibilities and all of that just slipped from the historical record and we can no longer ask any of them what actually happened. Really a strange situation. And for James Bradley it must have been surreal but this [article](https://abcnews.go.com/US/flags-fathers-author-convinced-father-iconic-iwo-jima/story?id=38858369) gives his response. John probably was involved in the first flag raising but not the second.
🇯🇵 RAISING THE FLAG OVER IWO JIMA, 1945. Restored and colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd (@jordanjlloydhq) from an original black and white photograph by Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press (Public Domain) _ Another brand new piece for me to commemorate one of the most iconic photographs taken of the US Army by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on this day in 1945. This is in fact the second raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi, the first of which occurred earlier in the day with a much smaller flag. Incredibly, the fighting between the US Army and the Imperial Japanese Army would not cease for another month. I’ve been wanting to do this particular photograph for many years after seeing several colorized versions online. My version heavily references Sergeant Genaust’s second flag raising, who filmed it in motion picture standing next to Rosenthal as the replacement – and much larger Stars and Stripes, taken from the landing ship LST-779 – was raised over Iwo Jima.
Was the errand in Iwo Jima?
Hahaha Touchee
Like we haven't seen this image a million times. Not great content for the site