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The other side of the battle.(Film)(Letters from Iwo Jima)(Movie review)
A GENERAL FLIES IN to take command of an isolated garrison. In spite of opposition from by-the-book officers on his staff he alters the strategy, telling his men, "No one is to die until they kill ten enemy soldiers." Scenes like this can be found in hundreds of American war films. But in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, the general is the real-life commander-in-chief of Iwo Jima, Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) and Letters is the first US film to be told from an entirely Japanese perspective with a Japanese cast speaking their own language. It was shot back-to-back with Flags of Our Fathers, Eastwood's exploration of the campaign from the points of view of ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) January 24, 2003 700+ words
...occupied Tarawa and Iwo Jima. Actual film footage...of the American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi at a Camp Pendleton artillery...platoon up the slopes of Mount Suribachi during the battle for Iwo Jima, and Col. David M...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Infield, Tom February 18, 1995 700+ words
...flag in triumph atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. To Joe Rosenthal...individual Marines. Iwo Jima was the Japanese term...much of anything. Mount Suribachi, a 556-foot volcano...The location of Iwo Jima, 660 miles southeast...
- Tulsan close to famous photo on Iwo Jima.
- Newspaper article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) February 23, 2007 700+ words
...flag being raised on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi -- was shot after...a corpsman on Iwo Jima who practiced medicine...Look at the flag on Mount Suribachi,' " he said...Oklahoma City corpsman on Iwo Jima, Dr. Jack Van Doren...
- On Iwo Jima's Anniversary, Tears and Salutes Series: REMBERING WORLD WAR II...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Steve Bates February 20, 1995 700+ words
...of Honor for their bravery at Iwo Jima joined Clinton as he laid a wreath...servicemen planting a flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, as depicted in the classic photograph...closed. "The men and women of Iwo Jima will forever stir our hearts...
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- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) October 19, 2006 700+ words
...no question that Eastwood's Iwo Jima battle scenes would never have...occupied with filming the battle of Iwo Jima in a second movie from the Japanese...raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. It's about the men credited...
- NAF Atsugi Chief Selects Take Heritage Trip to Iwo Jima.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire September 2, 2009 700+ words
...to visit Iwo Jima and to experience climbing Mount Suribachi or to walk...explained that Iwo Jima is a small...the home of Mount Suribachi. On Feb...the top of Mount Suribachi, the chief...Battle of Iwo Jima and the raising...
- John Bradley Dies; Raised Iwo Jima Flag
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post January 12, 1994 700+ words
...the servicemen shown raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, in what may be the most famous...flag raisings, four days after the Marines invaded Iwo Jima, marked the first time the U.S. flag had flown...
- Iwo Jima Marine
- Picture from: AP Images William H. Genaust February 23, 1945 700+ words
...and-white photo provided by the National Archives shows Marines raising the Old Glory on the summit of Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi, is an enlargement from sixteen millimeter movie frame exposed by Marine Combat Photographer Sgt. William...
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