Flags of Our Fathers: Difference between revisions
Flags of Our Fathers: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Flags of Our Fathers: Difference between revisions
[[M1 Garand]]s are used by a vast majority of the US Marines in the film including Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]), Corporal Harlon Block ([[Benjamin Walker]]), Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]), PFC Franklin Sousley ([[Joseph Cross]]), and Sergeant Hank Hansen ([[Paul Walker]]).
[[M1 Garand]]s are used by a vast majority of the US Marines in the film including Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]), Corporal Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker), Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]), PFC Franklin Sousley (Joseph Cross), and Sergeant Hank Hansen ([[Paul Walker]]).
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]) fires his M1 Garand at a Japanese machine gun bunker.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]) fires his M1 Garand at a Japanese machine gun bunker.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]) with his M1 Garand at the ready.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]) with his M1 Garand at the ready.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Marine holds the Garand. Next to him is Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]), also armed with an M1 Garand.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Marine holds the Garand. Next to him is Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]), also armed with an M1 Garand.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Corporal Harlon Block ([[Benjamin Walker]]) fires his M1 Garand into a machine gun emplacement after it is destroyed by a fragmentation grenade.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Corporal Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker) fires his M1 Garand into a machine gun emplacement after it is destroyed by a fragmentation grenade.]]
[[Image:Marine M1 Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|US Marines firing their M1 Garands.]]
[[Image:Marine M1 Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|US Marines firing their M1 Garands.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Corporal Ira Hayes ([[Adam Beach]]) holds his M1 Garand fitted with a bayonet upward, impaling a Japanese soldier with it.]]
[[Image:FOOFM1Garand-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Corporal Ira Hayes ([[Adam Beach]]) holds his M1 Garand fitted with a bayonet upward, impaling a Japanese soldier with it.]]
[[Image:Hansen Ignatowski M1 Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sergeant Hank Hansen and Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski fire their M1 Garands on Mt. Suribachi.]]
[[Image:Hansen Ignatowski M1 Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Sergeant Hank Hansen and Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski fire their M1 Garands on Mt. Suribachi.]]
[[Image:Ignatowski M1 Garand.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski fires his M1 Garand at the Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi.]]
[[Image:Ignatowski M1 Garand.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Gust ([[Stark Sands]]) fires his M1 Garand at the Japanese snipers on Mt. Suribachi.]]
[[Image:GustMarines M1Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Several M1 Garand rifles are propped up against a sandbagged tent. Gust ([[Stark Sands]]) also has an M1 Garand slung around his back.]]
[[Image:GustMarines M1Garands.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Several M1 Garand rifles are propped up against a sandbagged tent. Gust ([[Stark Sands]]) also has an M1 Garand slung around his back.]]
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 World War II film directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on the book by James Bradley, the film follows the lives of the men who were featured in the iconic photograph of the flag raising on the island of Iwo Jima (Bradley's father was the Navy corpsman who was one of the men in the photo). In the same year that Flags of our Fathers was released, Eastwood told the story of the battle for the island from the Japanese perspective in the film Letters from Iwo Jima.
The following weapons were used in the film Flags of our Fathers:
M1 Garands are used by a vast majority of the US Marines in the film including Corporal Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford), Corporal Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker), Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski (Jamie Bell), PFC Franklin Sousley (Joseph Cross), and Sergeant Hank Hansen (Paul Walker).
Many of the US Marines in the film carry M1911A1 pistols in their holsters. When scaling Mt. Suribachi, Medic John "Doc" Bradley (Ryan Phillippe) keeps his drawn and fires a few rounds at Japanese soldiers.
US Marines carry MK II hand grenades in pouches. One if seen used by a Corporal Harlon Block (Benjamin Walker) to attempt to clear a machine gun emplacement before it is suddenly functional again.
