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[[File:LfIJ_type_93.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Feeling desperate, Lieutenant Ito drops his mines to the ground.]]
[[File:LfIJ_type_93.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Feeling desperate, Lieutenant Ito drops his mines to the ground.]]
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==Browning M1919A4==
==Browning M1919A4==
During the night assault led by Lieutenant Ito (Shido Nakamura), US Marines utilize [[Browning M1919A4]] machine guns to counter the Japanese charge. A Marine also fires an M1919A4 at fleeing Japanese soldiers in another scene.
During the night assault led by Lieutenant Ito ([[Shidô Nakamura]]), US Marines utilize [[Browning M1919A4]] machine guns to counter the Japanese charge. A Marine also fires an M1919A4 at fleeing Japanese soldiers in another scene.
[[Image:M1919A4Browning.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Browning M1919A4 on M2 tripod - .30-06]]
[[Image:M1919A4Browning.jpg|thumb|none|450px|Browning M1919A4 on M2 tripod - .30-06]]
[[Image:LfIJ-BM1919A4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|On the left, the Browning M1919A4 is manned by a Marine during the night assault.]]
[[Image:LfIJ-BM1919A4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|On the left, the Browning M1919A4 is manned by a Marine during the night assault.]]
Letters from Iwo Jima is the 2006 companion film to Flags of Our Fathers. Also directed by Clint Eastwood, this film depicts the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers defending the island as told through their own letters. The film would go on to receive four Academy Award nominations, including for Best Picture and Best Director.
The following weapons were used in the film Letters from Iwo Jima:
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) is presented with an original Colt M1911 pistol by an American Officer (Mark Moses) in a flashback to his time in the United States. Near the end of the film, a U.S. Marine finds the pistol and places it in his belt. On a side note, the M1911 model in this film had ivory grips (possibly to differentiate its significance from the other M1911A1s with wooden grips that the Marines used).
When Lieutenant Fujita (Hiroshi Watanabe) attempts to behead General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe), a distant Marine sniper is seen firing a shot and then operating the bolt action of his rifle. The rifle is an M1903A1 Springfield, the predominately bolt action sniper rifle used by the Marines (and other US forces) during World War II.
A source from ISS (which supplied the weapons for the film) has confirmed that the rifle, which was supplied by key armorer David Fencl, was indeed an M1903A1 Springfield fitted with a 7.8x (8x) Unertl scope, and that the Marine sniper using the weapon was one of the film's technical advisors, Master Sergeant Tom Minder.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingA pair of M1903A1 Springfield sniper rifles with 7.8x Unertl scopes - .30-06. The guns pictured here were the actual rifles used in Letters from Iwo Jima (one is primary, another one is a back-up), and the rifle was fired by Master Sergeant Tom Minder, one of the film's technical advisors.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA close-up of the 7.8x scopes on the rifles from the film.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA close-up of the butts of the rifles used in the film.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA distant shot of the Marine sniper operating a bolt on his Springfield. The rifle was fired by Master Sergeant Tom Minder, one of the film's technical advisers.
M1 Garand
Many Marines are armed with M1 Garand rifles, some of them are equipped with M1 bayonets. When Shimizu (Ryô Kase) surrenders, a merciless Marine uses his M1 Garand rifle to execute him and another Japanese POW. In the final scene, when Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya) was surrounded by several Marines, most of them hold M1 Garand rifles.
US Marines are armed with M1 Carbines, they most notably use them during the Japanese Banzai charge. A U.S. Marine lieutenant also carries an M1 Carbine while finding the M1911 pistol of General Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe).
During the night assault led by Lieutenant Ito (Shidô Nakamura), US Marines utilize Browning M1919A4 machine guns to counter the Japanese charge. A Marine also fires an M1919A4 at fleeing Japanese soldiers in another scene.
Sam (Lucas Elliott), a US Marine, carries an M2 Flamethrower until he was captured by the Japanese. During the landing, two Japanese soldiers have been burnt by an M2 Flamethrower.
