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-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-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Pfc. Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski ([[Jamie Bell]]) fires his M1 Garand at a Japanese machine gun bunker.]]
[[Image:Ignatowski M1 Garand.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Gust ([[Stark Sands]]) 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.]]
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[[Image:FOOFBAR-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Marine uses his BAR to suppress a Japanese machine gunner (Notice how it looks like the rear sight is missing.]]
[[Image:FOOFBAR-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Marine uses his BAR to suppress a Japanese machine gunner (Notice how it looks like the rear sight is missing.]]
==Browning M1917==
==Browning M1917A1==
After the Marines plant the first flag, a [[Browning M1917]] is briefly seen behind Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]).
After the Marines plant the first flag, a [[Browning M1917]] is briefly seen behind Corporal Rene Gagnon ([[Jesse Bradford]]).
[[Image:M1917A1_2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Browning M1917 machine gun .30-06 with tripod and ammo box]]
[[Image:M1917A1_2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Browning M1917 machine gun .30-06 with tripod and ammo box]]
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[[Image:FOOFBoforsQuad-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Marines fire 40mm Bofors guns at the coast of Iwo Jima.]]
[[Image:FOOFBoforsQuad-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Marines fire 40mm Bofors guns at the coast of Iwo Jima.]]
[[Image:FOOFBoforsQuad-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Marines unload a quad Bofors (possibly on USS Leutze) before being destroyed by a Japanese heavy gun.]]
[[Image:FOOFBoforsQuad-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Marines unload a quad Bofors (possibly on USS Leutze) before being destroyed by a Japanese heavy gun.]]
==M9 "Bazooka"==
What appears to be a [[M9 "Bazooka"]] rocket launcher can be seen carried by a Marine.
Flags of Our Fathers is the 2006 World War II film directed by Clint Eastwood and based on the book of the same name by James Bradley (Bradley's father was the Navy corpsman who had been reported to be one of the men in the iconic photograph of the American flag raising on Iwo Jima). The film follows James Bradley upon the death of his father as he looks into the lives of the men who were featured in the photograph following the Marines' fierce battle to take the island. 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.
Mounted on several of the US Naval ships are Bofors 40mm Quad Mounted guns, which are used to shell the coast of Iwo Jima throughout much of the battle.
