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The Marine Corps admitted Thursday that it misidentified one of the six men in the World War II photograph of a flag-raising in Iwo Jima — one of the most iconic images in American history. For more than 70 years, history said John Bradley, a Navy hospital corpsman, was one of the six men seen in the legendary photo from one of the war’s bloodiest battles. But the Marines now say Bradley is nowhere in the photo — and the man believed to be Bradley is in fact Harold Schultz, a private first class.

James Bradley’s incendiary new book about Theodore Roosevelt is not really packed with secrets. Much of the material it discusses has long been hidden in plain sight. But Roosevelt biographers often subscribe to certain orthodoxies, and one of them is this: When Roosevelt made noxiously racist and ethnocentric remarks about Anglo-Saxon greatness, so what? He was just voicing the tenets of his time. Mr. Bradley, the author of “Flags of Our Fathers,” does not simply cite Roosevelt’s egregious talk. He presents this much-ignored aspect of Roosevelt’s thinking with sharp specificity (“I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic...

MORE than 50 years after he first appeared in Hollywood as a bright young Republican, Clint Eastwood has been attacked by his old allies as a bleeding heart liberal for his latest film, Flags of Our Fathers. The £40m film, which opened in 1,800 cinemas in America this weekend, focuses not only on the second world war battle of Iwo Jima but also on the fate of a native American soldier who, Eastwood suggests, was maltreated by the military after the Pacific campaign. Flags of Our Fathers, which stars the Billy Elliot actor Jamie Bell and will be released in...

On February 19 1945 Thomas McPhatter found himself on a landing craft heading toward the beach on Iwo Jima... Sadly, Sgt McPhatter's experience is not mirrored in Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood's big-budget, Oscar-tipped film of the battle for the Japanese island that opened on Friday in the US. While the film's battle scenes show scores of young soldiers in combat, none of them are African-American. Yet almost 900 African-American troops took part in the battle of Iwo Jima, including Sgt McPhatter...

This is not intended as a full-scale review, just some impressions from seeing the movie tonight. First, as you likely know, it deals with the three men (a Navy corpsman and two Marines) of the six flag raisers who survived Iwo Jima. Clint Eastwood directed this pic, which traces the first flag-raising---which, of course, was thought to be "the" flag-raising---then the second, captured for all time in Joe Rosenthal's photo. The main plot line is that the nation was broke, and would have to sue for peace with the Japanese (right) if we didn't generate more money, quickly, through war...

Flags of Our Fathers Print the Legend Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation A single photograph, we're told early on in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, can win or lose a war. But sometimes that photo shows us only part of the story, whether it's the part we don't want to see -- slaughtered villagers at My Lai, tortured prisoners at Abu Ghraib -- or the part we do, with heroes front and center and the carnage out of view. In Flags, the image under scrutiny is one of the most iconic in American photojournalism:...

It is Clint Eastwood’s “Dirty Harry”-esque directing approach - not the star-studded cast - that “Flags of Our Fathers” actor Barry Pepper credits for the oh-so-real on-screen re-enactment of World War II’s bloody Battle of Iwo Jima. “Eastwood didn’t rehearse anything,” Sgt. Michael Strank’s alter-ego told the Track. “So we didn’t know when these massive explosions were going to be sending a ton of sand in the air or where the weapons were going to be fired.” Battered from a blast, the startled stars would voice their surprise to Eastwood after a take. But Pepper said the Oscar winner would...

The former coach has never seen a war movie. When you've seen the real thing, why would you want to? He doesn't need to sit in a darkened movie theater to be reminded of the buddies he lost in World War II and Korea, Jack McCaffrey says. Guys who never got to raise a family, have a career, retire and go fishing. Guys who never got the chance to grow old. No, when you've seen the real thing, you don't need to see a war movie. "But I'm thinking about going to see this one," the 83-year-old Woodland Hills resident...

What a great movie. Clint Eastwood has done a masterful job showing the terrible struggle we faced at Iwo Jima. It focuses mainly on the three men who were on the war bond tour after the flag was planted. This film should be nominated for Best Picture. Go see it this weekend.

Just caught a trailor - online - of Flags of our Fathers. At the beginning of the trailor, a narrator says "people were tired of war." My question, was that true for back then? Or is that some current crap thrown in?

Two new movies based on a bloody 1945 battle are stirring up memories and forcing both sides to re-examine their history More than 60 years after it became one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Second World War, Iwo Jima's tragic history retains the power to overwhelm. As his plane prepared to land on the isolated Japanese island last month, the actor Ken Watanabe found he could not hold back the tears. Accompanying Watanabe, who shot to stardom playing a feudal warlord opposite Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, was another hard man of Hollywood whose time on Iwo Jima...

Summary of the eRumor The originator of the email says he was on a trip to Washington DC. At the Iwo Jima memorial, he ran into the son of one of the men who is in the famous picture of six men raising the American flag on Iwo Jima, a Japanese controlled island in the Pacific that was the scene of bloody fighting during World War II. The Truth James Brady is a real person and, as described in the story, is the author of a book titled "Flags of Our Fathers." Although this is circulated as the story of...

Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood are teaming up to bring the story of the Battle of Iwo Jima to the big screen. Eastwood will direct an adaptation of "Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima" for DreamWorks that Paul Haggis will write. The battle, which took place in the winter of 1945, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. In one month, 22,000 Japanese and 26,000 Americans died, and one of the outcomes was one of World War II's most enduring images: a photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/10/wiwo10.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/10/ixworld.html Spielberg to film story of Iwo Jima soldiers By Hugh Davies (Filed: 10/07/2004) The iconic image of six US soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945 is to be brought back to the cinema by Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood. Spielberg has recruited Eastwood to direct the film of the bestselling book Flags of Our Fathers. The book, written by James Bradley, tells the story of the six soldiers, one of whom was the author's father, before and after that day in February 1945. The photograph was a staged repetition of...