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 | John "Doc" Bradley |
Adam Beach | Ira Hayes |
Jesse Bradford | Rene Gagnon |
Paul Walker | Hank Hansen |
John Benjamin Hickey | Sergeant Keyes Beech |
Neal McDonough | Captain Severance |
Jamie Bell | Ralph Ignatowski |
Joseph Cross | Franklin Sousley |
Jason Gray-Stanford | Lieutenant Harold Schrier |
Melanie Lynskey | Pauline Harnois |
Robert Patrick | Colonel Chandler Johnson |
Barry Pepper | Sergeant Mike Strank |