Hayes was a Pima.. not Navajo
On 2/25/2019 8:42 PM, ann sanfedele wrote:
One of whom (of the flag raisers) was Ira Hayes, a Navajo. Peter
LaFarge wrote a moving ballad about him and his struggles and demise
after the war. it was most famously performed by Johnny Cash, but
Peter recorded it as well. I saw a movie years ago with Tony Curtis
(!) playing Hayes.. didn't see the Eastwood flick. Peter LaFarge
fooled many into thinking he, himself, was a Native Amreican - but he
wasn't - but that's another story.
ann
On 2/23/2019 5:50 PM, Paul Sorenson wrote:
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.
-p
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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