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[[Image:FOOFBAR-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Marine uses his BAR to suppress a Japanese machine gunner.]] | [[Image:FOOFBAR-3.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Marine uses his BAR to suppress a Japanese machine gunner.]] | ||
== Browning | ==Browning M1919A4== | ||
[[Browning M1919|Browning M1919A4]]s are used by Marines when they first combat the Japanese on the beach. | |||
[[Image:M1919A4Browning.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Browning | [[Image:M1919A4Browning.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Browning M1919A4 on M2 tripod - .30-06.]] | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:FOOFM1919A4-1.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Marine fires a Browning M1919A4 while recieving orders. Note how the belt is loaded with crimp-nosed blanks.]] | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:FOOFM1919A4-2.jpg|thumb|none|500px|A Marine fires a Browning M1919A4.]] | ||
== Browning M2 == | == Browning M2 == | ||
Revision as of 22:41, 26 April 2009
The following guns were used in the film Flags of our Fathers:
M1 Garand
M1 Garands are used by a vast majority of the US Marines in the film including Medic John "Doc" Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Corporal Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), Corporal Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker), Private First Class Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski (Jamie Bell), Pfc. Franklin Sousley (Joseph Cross), and Sergeant Hank Hansen (Paul Walker).
M1 Carbine
M1 Carbines are seen used by some US Marines including Sergeant Mike Strank (Barry Pepper) and Corporal Ira Hayes (Adam Beach).
Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2
Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2s are used by some of the Marines in the film.
Browning M1919A4
Browning M1919A4s are used by Marines when they first combat the Japanese on the beach.
Browning M2
The Browning M2 or .50 cal is seen being used by a Marine on an LVT to shoot at Mount Suribachi.
Thompson M1A1
The Thompson is seen used by a Marine to shoot into the pillbox during the beach scene.
M17 Rifle Grenade
The M17 is a fragmentation grenade that is shot from the end of a rifle. It is seen used by a Marine during the beach scene.
M2A1-7 Flamethrower
a portable Flamethrower used by and infantryman. As a range of about 30 meters and a burntime of 7 seconds. This is used by Corporal Charles W. Lindberg (Alessandro Mastrobuono) to burn a pillbox during the beach scene.
Mark 2 Fragmentation Hand Grenade
This is used by a Marine to try and clear a pillbox.
The following guns were used by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces
Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
The "woodpecker" is seen mounted inside the pillboxes.
Type 99 Light Machine Gun
This weapon is seen used in the pillboxes and in the ambush scene.
Type 99 Rifle
This weapon is used by the Ambushing IJA (Imperial Japanese Army) troops during the first flag raising.
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Type 94
Ira Hayes (Adam Beach) goes into a tunnel and finds it in it's holster lying by several dead Japanese soldiers.
