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They landed on sulfur island--Iwo Jima to the Japanese army that held it--on Feb. 19, 1945. On the fifth day of the death slog (the battle would rage for another five weeks), U.S. troops had commandeered enough of the island to reach the peak of Mount Suribachi. "Put a flag up there," one officer advised, and a few men did. But some bigwig wanted it as a souvenir, so six other men planted a second pole and raised the Stars and Stripes one more time. That was the tableau captured by photographer Joe Rosenthal--the one that told...
...Independence Day celebration in 1948 and received its highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India), in 2001. DIED. Joe Rosenthal, 94, combat photographer for AP who in 1945 captured what became the iconic image of World War II?U.S. soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, site of some of the war's bloodiest battles; in Novato, California. Rosenthal arranged a subsequent shot of the soldiers waving, leading critics to allege?wrongly, experts generally agree?that the famous photo was a setup. In fact, Rosenthal barely got the picture that boosted the morale...
...book, by James Bradley and Ron Powers, recounts the ultimately tragic tale of six young U.S. Marines who happened to raise a huge American flag atop Mount Suribachi in the midst of the great battle for Iwo Jima during World War II, of how an Associated Press photographer squeezed off what he thought was a routine shot of them doing so that became an iconic image, of what happened to some of those kids (only three survived the next few days of battle) when they were hustled home to be heedlessly exploited by the U.S. government to raise civilian morale...
...place. Haggis' work gains its power from its confident range. The screenplay starts with the Americans on the beaches and the protagonists raising the flag. It follows them on their vulgar war-bond tour (they were obliged to re-enact the flag raising on a papier-mâché Suribachi at Soldier Field in Chicago) and then traces their postwar descent into dream-tossed anonymity. You could argue that the Japanese were the lucky ones: their government and religion foreordained their fate, and they had no choice but to endure it. Chance played more capriciously with the Americans, who liked...
...Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission. "The waves and wind looked hauntingly familiar," he said. "We saw the place where my target had been, then turned...