Of the six men depicted in the picture above, three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank) did not survive the battle; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon the publication of the photo.

In 1945, the Pacific war against Japan was nearing its end when the United States made plans to launch its next attack on the first of the Japanese home islands. Director Clint Eastwood, working with a script by Iris Yamashita, tells of this famous battle through the eyes of the island’s defenders in “Letters from Iwo Jima.

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Baker Saigo and His Wife

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