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Major General Graves B. Erskine and John Wayne on Set of Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949
Major General Graves B. Erskine talks with John Wayne during the filming of Sands of Iwo Jima.

From the Graves B. Erskine Collection (COLL/3065) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections





Major General Graves B. Erskine on Set of Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949
Major General Graves B. Erskine on the set of Sands of Iwo Jima. Erskine appears in this photograph with stars Forrest Tucker and John Wayne.

From the Graves B. Erskine Collection (COLL/3065) at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections

Sgt. Stryker!

What a good movie! The MG has his German Short Hair with him.

Great pics. I gotta watch that movie again now!

The flag they used in move is the Flag from Iwo
The three Stryker hands flag to to raise are the last three survivors

Actual Marines Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and John Bradley, the three survivors of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who raised the second flag on Mount Suribachi during the actual battle, appear briefly in the film just prior to the re-enactment. Hayes was also the subject of a film biography, The Outsider, and Bradley the subject of a book by his son James, Flags of Our Fathers.

Also appearing as themselves are 1st Lt. Harold Schrier, who led the flag-raising patrol on Iwo Jima, Col. David M. Shoup, later Commandant of the Marine Corps and recipient of the Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Lt. Col. Henry P. "Jim" Crowe, commander of the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines at Tarawa, where he earned the U.S. Navy Cross.

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The flag they used in move is the Flag from Iwo
The three Stryker hands flag to to raise are the last three survivors

Actual Marines Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes and John Bradley, the three survivors of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who raised the second flag on Mount Suribachi during the actual battle, appear briefly in the film just prior to the re-enactment. Hayes was also the subject of a film biography, The Outsider, and Bradley the subject of a book by his son James, Flags of Our Fathers.

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I did not know that. That's great . Thanks for posting that bit of movie trivia.
Chris

I did not know that about the movie. Wow.

But I did read "Flags of our Fathers" and the movie is great too. It was a hard book to read. Especially Ira Haye's life after the war.

Sgt. Stryker! The reason I joined the Marine Corps!!
Semper Fi
Phil