They fight for their country but they die for their friends.
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Ryan Phillippe Jesse Bradford Adam Beach John Benjamin Hickey John Slattery Barry Pepper Jamie Bell Paul Walker Robert Patrick Neal McDonough Melanie Lynskey Tom McCarthy Chris Bauer Judith Ivey Myra Turley Joseph Cross Benjamin Walker Alessandro Mastrobuono Scott Eastwood Stark Sands George Grizzard Harve Presnell George Hearn Len Cariou Christopher Curry Bubba Lewis Beth Grant Connie Ray Ann Dowd Mary Beth Peil David Patrick Kelly Jon Polito Ned Eisenberg Gordon Clapp Michael Cumpsty V.J. Foster Kirk B.R. Woller Tom Verica Jason Gray-Stanford Matt Huffman David Hornsby Brian Kimmet David Rasche Tom Mason Patrick Dollaghan James Newman Steven M. Porter Dale Waddington Lennie Loftin David Clennon Mark Thomason Oliver Davis Sean Moran Lisa Dodson John Nielsen Jon Kellam Ron Fassler Denise Vlasis Jenifer Menedis Joie Shettler Vivien Lesiak John Henry Canavan Donn Emerson Jayma Mays Yukari Black John Hoogenakker Barry Sigismondi William Charlton Beth Tapper Shannon Gayle Jim Cantafio Mark Colson Danny McCarthy Patrick New James Horan Michael Canavan Erica Grant Silas Weir Mitchell George Cambio David S. Brooks Joi Johannsson Martin Delaney Daniel Forcey Björgvin Franz Gíslason Darri Ingolfsson Hilmar Guðjónsson Jeremy Merrill Jeremiah Bitsui John Maloney Dick 'Skip' Evans Karl Gulledge Michael Ahl Brian Eric Alexander Tex Allen Mark T Anderson Martin Andris Erik Audé David Block Kyle S. Brown Dale Caba Brian Ceponis Jean-Paul Chreky Ali Costello Michelle Cuneo Jemma Evans Paul Fahrenkopf Pamela Fischer Reese Foster Jason Frederick Grétar Már Garðarsson Katherine Hoskins Mackey George Kardulias Debbi Larkins Halldór Magnússon Jon Marshall Theo Marshall Nevin Millan Mark A. Nash Spiro Papas Robin Reck Matthew Schueller Robert Shepherd Guðmundur Karl Sigurdórsson Arne Starr Chris Stinson Vignir Jón Vignisson Jesse G. Louis
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