1 00:01:01,327 --> 00:01:02,988 Corpsman! 2 00:01:07,801 --> 00:01:09,291 Corpsman! 3 00:01:16,242 --> 00:01:17,368 Corpsman! 4 00:01:22,048 --> 00:01:24,278 For God sakes! Corpsman! 5 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:29,453 Corpsman! 6 00:01:42,368 --> 00:01:43,960 Corpsman! 7 00:01:47,507 --> 00:01:50,635 Honey, what's wrong? 8 00:02:06,759 --> 00:02:10,320 Every jackass thinks he knows what war is. 9 00:02:11,498 --> 00:02:13,966 Especially those who've never been in one. 10 00:02:15,268 --> 00:02:17,532 We like things nice and simple, 11 00:02:18,171 --> 00:02:21,937 good and evil, heroes and villains. 12 00:02:22,308 --> 00:02:24,833 There's always plenty of both. 13 00:02:26,479 --> 00:02:30,176 Most of the time, they are not who we think they are. 14 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:50,496 Where is he? 15 00:02:52,205 --> 00:02:53,695 Where is he? 16 00:02:55,508 --> 00:02:58,375 Where... Where is he? Where is he? 17 00:03:00,980 --> 00:03:02,538 Mr. Bradley? 18 00:03:04,918 --> 00:03:07,284 Mr. B? You okay? 19 00:03:07,353 --> 00:03:09,844 - Where is he? - Where is who? 20 00:03:10,323 --> 00:03:13,588 Where is he? Where did he go? Where... Where is he? 21 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:15,890 All right. Just stay right here, okay? 22 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:18,829 I'm gonna call an ambulance. It'll be okay. 23 00:03:20,667 --> 00:03:22,191 Where is he? 24 00:03:25,371 --> 00:03:29,899 Most guys I knew would never talk about what happened over there. 25 00:03:30,143 --> 00:03:33,340 Probably 'cause they're still trying to forget about it. 26 00:03:33,413 --> 00:03:37,747 They certainly didn't think of themselves as heroes. 27 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,382 They died without glory. 28 00:03:43,823 --> 00:03:46,155 Nobody has taken their pictures. 29 00:03:46,693 --> 00:03:49,287 Only their buddies knew what they did. 30 00:03:49,362 --> 00:03:52,297 I'd tell their folks they died for their country. 31 00:03:53,633 --> 00:03:55,533 I'm not sure that was it. 32 00:03:55,602 --> 00:03:58,036 Now, there were plenty other photos taken that day, 33 00:03:58,104 --> 00:04:00,732 but none anybody wanted to see. 34 00:04:00,807 --> 00:04:03,105 What we see and do in war, 35 00:04:04,277 --> 00:04:07,769 the cruelty, is unbelievable. 36 00:04:09,215 --> 00:04:12,082 But somehow we gotta make some sense of it. 37 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:15,744 To do that, we need a easy to understand truth 38 00:04:15,822 --> 00:04:17,983 and damn few words. 39 00:04:20,293 --> 00:04:21,851 Film's ruined. 40 00:04:21,928 --> 00:04:25,295 I don't know. This one looks all right. 41 00:04:29,802 --> 00:04:32,100 And if you can get a picture... 42 00:04:35,174 --> 00:04:40,476 Now, the right picture can win or lose a war. 43 00:04:40,780 --> 00:04:43,010 You're gonna want to see this. 44 00:04:44,083 --> 00:04:45,482 Look at Vietnam. 45 00:04:45,551 --> 00:04:47,917 The picture of that South Vietnamese officer 46 00:04:47,987 --> 00:04:52,185 blowing that fella's brains out of the side of his head, whammo! 47 00:04:53,159 --> 00:04:54,717 That was it. 48 00:04:55,161 --> 00:04:56,992 The war was lost. 49 00:04:58,398 --> 00:05:01,162 We just hung around trying to pretend it wasn't. 50 00:05:03,169 --> 00:05:07,435 Took a lot of other pictures that day. None of them made a difference. 51 00:05:10,243 --> 00:05:12,006 Thanks. Appreciate it. 52 00:05:22,922 --> 00:05:25,516 Sounds ridiculous, but it happened. 53 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:28,125 Country was bankrupt. 54 00:05:28,194 --> 00:05:31,891 People were becoming cynical and tired of war. 55 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,270 Oh, my Lord, that's Harlon! 56 00:05:48,348 --> 00:05:49,406 Where? 57 00:05:49,482 --> 00:05:53,441 Right there. Planting that flag, that's your brother. 58 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,817 Ma, all you can see is his behind. 59 00:05:55,888 --> 00:05:59,790 And that's his. I powdered and diapered it, I know my son. 60 00:06:00,159 --> 00:06:02,684 That's him. Go get your father. 61 00:06:02,795 --> 00:06:05,992 Daddy, Ma's got a picture of Harlon's keister in the paper. 62 00:06:06,065 --> 00:06:08,727 You watch your mouth, young man. 63 00:06:22,582 --> 00:06:24,072 Thank you. 64 00:06:26,753 --> 00:06:31,156 One photo, almost all on its own, turned that around. 65 00:06:31,891 --> 00:06:34,758 It's on the front page of every major paper. 66 00:06:34,827 --> 00:06:38,991 Over 200 dailies and they're all flooded with requests for prints. 67 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,866 I think we might have found it. 68 00:07:33,419 --> 00:07:34,818 Corpsman! 69 00:07:36,122 --> 00:07:37,282 Corpsman! 70 00:07:41,561 --> 00:07:43,028 Corpsman! 71 00:07:43,095 --> 00:07:45,120 - I gotta go get him. - Oh, no, you don't. 72 00:07:45,198 --> 00:07:46,563 Iggy, I gotta go. 73 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:47,758 I have a whole different theory. 74 00:07:47,834 --> 00:07:50,701 He wants medical attention bad enough, he'll come to us. 75 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:54,035 Shut up and crawl over here, you lazy son-of-a-bitch! 76 00:07:54,574 --> 00:07:56,041 As soon as that flare goes out. 77 00:07:56,108 --> 00:07:58,668 - Crap. Okay, well, I'll go with you. - No. 78 00:07:58,744 --> 00:08:00,041 You're actually gonna leave me here? 79 00:08:00,112 --> 00:08:03,479 I'll be right back, just shoot some people. I gotta go. 80 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:17,890 Oh, God. 81 00:08:18,631 --> 00:08:20,121 Okay, it's okay. 82 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:21,461 Don't touch them. Don't touch them. 83 00:08:21,534 --> 00:08:23,525 Get your hands out of there. Let me do that. I'll do it, okay? 84 00:08:23,603 --> 00:08:26,094 Don't look. Keep your head back. Keep your eyes on me. 85 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:29,972 All right, look at me. I'll get it. I'll take care of it. 86 00:08:30,042 --> 00:08:33,170 We'll get this bandage on you. We'll get you taken care of. 87 00:08:33,246 --> 00:08:35,407 And we'll get you down to the bottom, all right? 88 00:08:35,481 --> 00:08:37,608 Look, you're gonna be fine. 89 00:08:38,784 --> 00:08:40,115 It's okay. 90 00:08:40,953 --> 00:08:42,716 I'll do that. I'll do that. 91 00:08:43,789 --> 00:08:45,017 Here, put some pressure on that. 92 00:08:45,091 --> 00:08:47,082 Put your hands on top and put some pressure on it. 93 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:49,127 Keep your head back. Keep breathing. 94 00:08:49,195 --> 00:08:51,629 Keep looking at me, all right? Just keep looking at... 95 00:08:57,370 --> 00:08:58,428 Doc. 96 00:09:00,406 --> 00:09:02,135 Help me. 97 00:09:05,244 --> 00:09:06,871 Help me. 98 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:22,828 All right. Okay. 99 00:09:31,304 --> 00:09:32,931 How's that feel? 100 00:09:33,906 --> 00:09:36,670 - It feels good. - It does? All right. 101 00:09:36,742 --> 00:09:38,471 - Good. - All right. 102 00:09:38,978 --> 00:09:42,106 I'm gonna go get a stretcher and get you down to the beach. I'll be right back. 103 00:09:42,181 --> 00:09:43,614 I'm all right. 104 00:09:44,283 --> 00:09:46,774 Go and help someone who's hurt. 105 00:09:47,453 --> 00:09:49,717 All right. Hold on there. 106 00:10:01,901 --> 00:10:03,766 - Where'd he go? - Who? 107 00:10:03,836 --> 00:10:06,134 The guy who was right here, Ignatowski. Where did he go? 108 00:10:06,205 --> 00:10:08,867 - I think you jumped in the wrong hole. - I didn't jump in the wrong hole! 109 00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:11,705 He was right here, now where the hell is he? 110 00:10:12,545 --> 00:10:13,671 Lggy! 111 00:10:15,648 --> 00:10:16,808 Lggy! 112 00:10:16,882 --> 00:10:19,180 You shut up. You want every Jap on the island shooting at us? 113 00:10:19,251 --> 00:10:20,684 Lggy! 114 00:10:40,873 --> 00:10:42,602 Holy shit. 115 00:10:45,378 --> 00:10:47,505 They expect us to climb this? 116 00:10:50,349 --> 00:10:52,408 Or something just like it. 117 00:10:59,692 --> 00:11:02,252 So, where you think they're sending us? 118 00:11:02,328 --> 00:11:04,956 I think it's the desert, Franklin. 119 00:11:05,898 --> 00:11:07,695 Well, that makes no sense at all. 120 00:11:07,767 --> 00:11:09,758 Well, it's just military psychology. 121 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:12,668 They always train you for the desert on a volcano. 122 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,775 Now you're just having fun with me. 123 00:11:18,110 --> 00:11:19,941 Harlon, take your men right. 124 00:11:20,012 --> 00:11:21,604 - Watch for Bedouins. - Yes, sir. 125 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:24,673 - What's a Bedouin? - It's a guy with a camel. 126 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:29,886 Well, Jeez Louise, maybe we are going to the desert. 127 00:11:30,256 --> 00:11:35,057 Now, you tilt that to the right, but what if the bullet comes from the left? 128 00:11:35,428 --> 00:11:39,421 Bullets don't come from the left. You know any left-handed Japs? 129 00:11:40,166 --> 00:11:43,192 That makes about as much sense as you showering with your shoes on. 130 00:11:43,269 --> 00:11:45,430 You don't even know why you do it, do you? 131 00:11:45,504 --> 00:11:47,734 'Cause I don't tell you mean I don't know? 132 00:11:47,807 --> 00:11:49,866 You do it 'cause Mike does it. 133 00:11:50,342 --> 00:11:51,866 I'll ask him. 134 00:11:52,878 --> 00:11:54,402 So you cut hair back home? 135 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:55,572 Some. 136 00:11:56,082 --> 00:11:58,414 Training to be a barber, are you, Doc? 137 00:11:58,484 --> 00:12:00,816 No, I just studied it a little. 138 00:12:02,188 --> 00:12:04,520 But not in barber school? 139 00:12:05,024 --> 00:12:06,116 Nope. 140 00:12:07,326 --> 00:12:09,658 - Gosh. - Let me guess, Hayes is winning. 141 00:12:09,729 --> 00:12:13,096 Chief, I had very little to do with Sitting Bull's death, 142 00:12:13,165 --> 00:12:15,725 so maybe you could stop taking it out on me. 143 00:12:15,801 --> 00:12:19,567 Different tribe. The Pimas fought on the side of the white man. 144 00:12:19,638 --> 00:12:22,129 - See, now that's smart. - That is smart. 145 00:12:22,208 --> 00:12:25,336 Yeah. Worked real good for us. 146 00:12:25,411 --> 00:12:27,038 Good luck, fellas. 147 00:12:27,113 --> 00:12:29,013 Hey, good night, Lindberg. 148 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:32,983 Dead bodies. He cuts hair on dead bodies. 149 00:12:33,352 --> 00:12:35,877 What? Even I knew that. 150 00:12:37,857 --> 00:12:40,223 - Who's in? - Oh, I'm in. I'm in. 151 00:12:40,993 --> 00:12:44,451 It must be a lot easier with them not moving around and all. 152 00:12:44,530 --> 00:12:46,122 - There's that. - Yeah. 153 00:12:46,999 --> 00:12:48,591 You know what I been thinking? 154 00:12:48,667 --> 00:12:51,602 Well, they been telling us we need to buddy up 155 00:12:51,670 --> 00:12:54,230 and I think we'd make pretty good buddies. 156 00:12:54,306 --> 00:12:55,864 And how do you figure that? 157 00:12:55,941 --> 00:12:58,933 Well, you know, in that we have a lot in common. 158 00:13:00,913 --> 00:13:03,143 So, why do you cut dead people's hair, anyway? 159 00:13:03,215 --> 00:13:05,740 I'm studying to work in a funeral home. 160 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:10,353 You tell a lot of people that? 161 00:13:10,422 --> 00:13:14,188 You actually chose the Marines because they got the best uniform? 162 00:13:14,260 --> 00:13:18,356 No sense being a hero if you don't look like one. 163 00:13:20,533 --> 00:13:21,727 Jacks. 164 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:24,595 Queens. 165 00:13:24,670 --> 00:13:25,932 Shit. 166 00:13:27,606 --> 00:13:30,131 Do anything on that reservation but play cards, Chief? 167 00:13:30,209 --> 00:13:33,610 All right, listen up, you sorry bunch of leathernecks! 168 00:13:35,247 --> 00:13:36,771 We practice going over the side tomorrow 169 00:13:36,849 --> 00:13:38,339 which means we ain't long for this piece of rock. 170 00:13:38,417 --> 00:13:39,884 All right! 171 00:13:40,386 --> 00:13:43,355 One more thing, any man who doesn't have his masturbation papers in order 172 00:13:43,422 --> 00:13:45,754 better get them signed by tomorrow night or he ain't going overseas. 173 00:13:45,825 --> 00:13:47,918 - I got mine already. - Oh, yeah. I'm square. 174 00:13:47,993 --> 00:13:50,518 Wait. Why am I just hearing about this? 175 00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:53,258 That's horseshit, Franklin. I don't have to repeat everything twice for you. 176 00:13:53,332 --> 00:13:56,529 No, I didn't hear nothing about no masturbating papers. 177 00:13:56,602 --> 00:13:58,570 Heard they were running short. 178 00:13:59,605 --> 00:14:02,631 You know, nobody tells me nothing. That's real nice, guys. 179 00:14:02,708 --> 00:14:04,835 All right, get your ass over to the officer in charge of records. 180 00:14:04,910 --> 00:14:06,741 Maybe he got some more left. 181 00:14:07,913 --> 00:14:10,313 - Leave your smokes. I'll play for you. - Thanks, Mike. 182 00:14:10,382 --> 00:14:13,647 Listen, he calls you an idiot, you take it like a man, okay? 183 00:14:13,719 --> 00:14:15,687 Just do not leave without signing them. 184 00:14:15,754 --> 00:14:18,188 - I appreciate it, Sergeant. - You got it. 185 00:14:23,896 --> 00:14:26,956 What the hell happened to your hair, Rene? 186 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,592 Look like a goddamn corpse. 187 00:14:34,473 --> 00:14:37,601 Three points of contact on that rope at all times. 188 00:14:38,177 --> 00:14:40,771 Next four. Over the side. 189 00:14:41,747 --> 00:14:43,578 Let's go. Keep moving. 190 00:14:44,283 --> 00:14:46,308 Next four, over the side. 191 00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:48,285 Just keep your eye on the guy below you. 192 00:14:48,354 --> 00:14:49,685 That's all you gotta look at. 193 00:14:49,755 --> 00:14:51,814 Watch me, Doc, just watch me. 194 00:14:51,891 --> 00:14:55,520 Keep three points of contact on the rope at all times. 195 00:14:57,730 --> 00:15:00,028 You see? No big thing. 196 00:15:00,499 --> 00:15:03,866 Just one step at a time and keep your hands on the vertical rope. 197 00:15:03,936 --> 00:15:06,370 Remember, once you're in the boat move away from the rope. 198 00:15:06,438 --> 00:15:09,430 Just make sure you keep three points of contact on the rope. 199 00:15:09,508 --> 00:15:10,634 I got him! 200 00:15:10,709 --> 00:15:12,404 All right, get that man out of the water. 201 00:15:12,478 --> 00:15:13,945 Give me a hand. 202 00:15:15,014 --> 00:15:16,174 Grab his pack. 203 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:17,340 Don't worry about him, Doc. 204 00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:19,577 All right, quit skylarking! Keep it moving! 205 00:15:19,652 --> 00:15:20,983 He'll be fine. 206 00:15:22,121 --> 00:15:24,817 Our target, Island X, 207 00:15:24,890 --> 00:15:29,224 is an ugly, smelly, dirty little scab of rock called Iwo Jima. 208 00:15:30,062 --> 00:15:33,225 It means "Sulfur Island," which accounts for the smell. 209 00:15:34,566 --> 00:15:37,535 Looks sort of like a burnt pork chop, you ask me. 210 00:15:38,370 --> 00:15:40,201 After 20 straight days of bombing 211 00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:42,638 you won't find a blade of grass or a twig on it. 212 00:15:42,708 --> 00:15:45,233 It wasn't that pretty to start with. 213 00:15:45,311 --> 00:15:46,471 Captain? 214 00:15:46,545 --> 00:15:50,140 Lwo's just five-and-a-half miles long, two-and-a-half wide. 215 00:15:50,215 --> 00:15:53,343 There's a lump down at the bottom. That's Mount Suribachi. 216 00:15:53,419 --> 00:15:55,512 On the maps in front of you the island is white. 217 00:15:55,587 --> 00:15:57,145 Not much of it. 218 00:15:57,823 --> 00:16:00,724 The black dots represent known enemy emplacements. 219 00:16:00,793 --> 00:16:03,159 Coastal defense guns, dual-mount dual-purpose guns, 220 00:16:03,228 --> 00:16:04,718 covered artillery emplacements. 221 00:16:04,797 --> 00:16:06,992 Rifle pits, foxholes, antitank guns 222 00:16:07,066 --> 00:16:10,934 machine guns, blockhouses, pillboxes, and earth-covered structures. 223 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:13,836 I don't see any barracks or any other structures. 224 00:16:13,906 --> 00:16:15,373 That's right. 225 00:16:15,441 --> 00:16:17,306 And we still don't know why. 226 00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:20,174 Now, this isn't just any island to them. 227 00:16:20,245 --> 00:16:24,579 This isn't Tarawa, Guam, Tinian, or Saipan. 228 00:16:24,683 --> 00:16:27,811 This is Japanese soil, sacred ground. 229 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,084 Twelve thousand Japanese defenders in eight square miles. 230 00:16:31,156 --> 00:16:33,647 They will not leave politely, gentlemen. 231 00:16:33,726 --> 00:16:35,819 It's up to us to convince them. 232 00:16:36,362 --> 00:16:39,160 The 28th will land here at Green Beach. 233 00:16:39,231 --> 00:16:42,257 The 8th Ammo Company will land here to re-supply. 234 00:16:42,334 --> 00:16:44,302 The Suribachi's guns are the biggest problem. 235 00:16:44,370 --> 00:16:46,065 They can hit any point on the island. 236 00:16:46,138 --> 00:16:48,504 We're sitting ducks until we take them out. 237 00:16:48,574 --> 00:16:50,132 That's our job. 238 00:16:50,209 --> 00:16:54,202 We cut across the island, right at the base, slit its throat, lop off its head. 239 00:16:54,279 --> 00:16:55,837 And we take that mountain. 240 00:16:55,914 --> 00:16:58,576 We take that mountain, we take their big guns. 241 00:16:58,650 --> 00:17:00,379 We take their eyes. 242 00:17:13,632 --> 00:17:15,623 Okay, I'm heading in. Follow me. 243 00:17:16,668 --> 00:17:18,329 Let's put a good show on for the Marines. 244 00:17:18,404 --> 00:17:20,565 Close it up. Take it right down to the deck. 245 00:17:35,754 --> 00:17:37,221 Yeah, boys! 246 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:43,521 Man overboard portside! 247 00:17:52,504 --> 00:17:53,732 See him? 248 00:17:56,442 --> 00:17:57,670 Throw me a line! 249 00:17:57,743 --> 00:17:59,370 He's right there. 250 00:17:59,578 --> 00:18:01,705 - Where is he? - Watch out, watch out, watch out. 251 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:04,775 Hawaii's that way! 252 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:11,778 Just keep paddling, Mac, we'll catch you on the way back! 253 00:18:12,424 --> 00:18:14,915 Hold on, they're gonna lower a raft! 254 00:18:16,195 --> 00:18:17,685 They're not gonna stop. 255 00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:18,855 What? 256 00:18:19,398 --> 00:18:22,333 None of them are. They can't. 257 00:18:29,208 --> 00:18:31,642 So much for "No man left behind. " 258 00:18:39,051 --> 00:18:40,643 - Sir. - Come on in. 259 00:18:41,019 --> 00:18:43,044 Look, I've had to make a few other changes. 260 00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:46,023 I'm promoting you to platoon sergeant. 261 00:18:47,693 --> 00:18:50,355 - Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. - You bet. 262 00:18:50,863 --> 00:18:54,264 Trouble is, I already told my men I'd see them through this. 263 00:18:54,333 --> 00:18:56,494 That your James Cagney impersonation? 264 00:18:56,568 --> 00:18:58,433 'Cause I've heard better. 265 00:18:58,937 --> 00:19:01,132 Well, I'll keep practicing, then. 266 00:19:02,174 --> 00:19:03,971 Look, this isn't your first time through this. 267 00:19:04,042 --> 00:19:06,977 - You don't need to prove anything. - No, sir. 268 00:19:08,847 --> 00:19:10,212 You're not the best sergeant I've ever had, 269 00:19:10,282 --> 00:19:12,273 you're just the best one that's still walking. 270 00:19:12,351 --> 00:19:14,148 - Block's a good man. - Yes, sir, he is. 271 00:19:14,219 --> 00:19:16,380 The men know him, he can step right in. 272 00:19:18,991 --> 00:19:21,482 You know, I have actually thought this through. 273 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,552 Platoon sergeant puts you further away from the bullets. 274 00:19:24,630 --> 00:19:27,098 I already gave them my word, sir. 275 00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:29,066 I told them I'd bring them all home to their mothers 276 00:19:29,134 --> 00:19:32,069 which means I already lied to half of them. Can't lie to the rest. 277 00:19:35,774 --> 00:19:38,299 - How are your men? - They'll do fine. 278 00:19:39,478 --> 00:19:41,275 Except maybe Gagnon. 279 00:19:41,613 --> 00:19:43,444 Our own Tyrone Power? 280 00:19:44,383 --> 00:19:49,252 Yes, sir. He's a good man, just might be better use further back from the lines. 281 00:19:51,089 --> 00:19:53,080 I'll use him as a runner. 282 00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:55,822 All right. Thank you, sir. 283 00:19:55,894 --> 00:19:57,555 Now get out of here. 284 00:20:04,403 --> 00:20:07,304 Hear the good news, Doc? We're going in with the first waves. 285 00:20:07,372 --> 00:20:10,432 Hey, you do that again I'll take your head off! 286 00:20:10,509 --> 00:20:12,204 Fucking dominoes. 287 00:20:12,945 --> 00:20:16,779 Iggy, have you ever heard news you considered to be bad? 288 00:20:17,382 --> 00:20:19,475 The first ones off the ship, Doc. 289 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:21,644 Means we don't go over the side of the ship. 290 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,484 We hop on a tractor, they drive us right there. 291 00:20:24,556 --> 00:20:26,786 Oh, shit, that is good news. 292 00:20:26,858 --> 00:20:28,758 You see? What'd I tell you? 293 00:20:36,301 --> 00:20:37,893 What's going on? 294 00:21:03,662 --> 00:21:05,220 Look at that. 295 00:21:06,064 --> 00:21:07,190 We're killing them! 296 00:21:07,266 --> 00:21:09,097 We're killing them, Doc. 297 00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:38,422 I was promised 10 days of shelling. 298 00:21:38,497 --> 00:21:41,660 You're giving me three and saying that's the best you can do? 299 00:21:41,733 --> 00:21:44,930 I don't give a shit! My men hit that beach with less than 10 300 00:21:45,003 --> 00:21:47,767 and I'll be taking them home to their mamas in buckets! 301 00:21:50,475 --> 00:21:52,067 Yeah, I know exactly why. 302 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:54,942 Because every Navy man with a scrambled egg on his chest 303 00:21:55,013 --> 00:21:58,005 wants to offload us here and sail to Japan 304 00:21:58,083 --> 00:22:00,381 so they can be there for the big finish, 305 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:04,555 tell their kids they captured the Emperor all by themselves. 306 00:22:04,623 --> 00:22:08,650 Well, you aren't going to Japan unless we take this piece of shit island! 307 00:22:09,161 --> 00:22:11,220 These little pricks are dug in! 308 00:22:14,433 --> 00:22:18,961 Okay, appreciate that, Jim. Three days is a fucking beautiful thing. 309 00:22:25,143 --> 00:22:27,202 Sharpen your knife or bayonet? 310 00:22:27,779 --> 00:22:29,041 I'm okay. 311 00:22:30,382 --> 00:22:31,713 Sharpen your knife or bayonet? 312 00:22:31,783 --> 00:22:34,650 Jesus, Iggy, just leave me alone, all right? 313 00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:38,611 How about you guys? Knife? Bayonet? Kick in the ass? 314 00:22:39,157 --> 00:22:42,058 How about you, Doc? Sharpen your knife? 315 00:22:42,861 --> 00:22:44,852 You sharpened it three times already. 316 00:22:44,930 --> 00:22:47,728 Well, then I better make sure I didn't nick it. 317 00:22:49,234 --> 00:22:50,667 Good man, Doc. 318 00:22:55,107 --> 00:22:56,734 - Hey, Doc. - Yeah. 319 00:22:58,777 --> 00:23:02,269 When we land, try not to wave this kit around too much. 320 00:23:02,347 --> 00:23:04,440 They got sharpshooters that are trained to look for them. 321 00:23:04,516 --> 00:23:06,541 And they know that if they take out a corpsman 322 00:23:06,618 --> 00:23:09,086 another dozen Marines will die unattended. All right? 323 00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:10,485 Okay, Mike. 324 00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,685 Yeah, right there. 325 00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:51,958 Close the damn door. For God's sake. 326 00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:54,157 Yeah, like that's gonna help. 327 00:24:00,472 --> 00:24:02,303 That your girlfriend, Chief? 328 00:24:04,309 --> 00:24:06,903 Bet she's a pretty damn good-looking squaw. 329 00:24:06,978 --> 00:24:10,505 Bet you're missing her, and that little wigwam of yours. 330 00:24:19,958 --> 00:24:22,927 Welcome, all Marines off Iwo Jima. 331 00:24:23,595 --> 00:24:25,529 We have a long-time wait... 332 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:27,895 It's what they do to prisoners, 333 00:24:31,102 --> 00:24:34,071 - at least the lucky ones. - Jesus. 334 00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:39,943 If I were you, cowpokes, I wouldn't think about waving a white bandanna. 335 00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:44,539 Poor Marines, so far from home for no good reason. 336 00:24:45,851 --> 00:24:49,343 Think of your girls back home, waiting for you. 337 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:52,413 But a girl cannot stay home every night. 338 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,654 So who do you think they're with tonight? 339 00:24:56,495 --> 00:25:01,398 And will she let him kiss her? And will he comfort her at your funeral? 340 00:25:01,867 --> 00:25:06,236 This sweet music is to make you think of your girls back home 341 00:25:06,304 --> 00:25:08,397 who are missing you. 342 00:25:08,473 --> 00:25:11,374 This is all for now. I'll see you tomorrow night. 343 00:27:28,079 --> 00:27:29,239 Gunners! 344 00:27:36,154 --> 00:27:39,089 Move, let's go! Let's go, get up on the berm! 345 00:27:46,231 --> 00:27:47,755 Gunners! 346 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:00,572 We're clear! 347 00:28:03,648 --> 00:28:05,240 Get up the berm! 348 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:09,745 Baker Company, move out! 349 00:28:09,821 --> 00:28:11,448 - Seen Second Platoon? - I don't see them. 350 00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:13,047 First Squad, move it out! 351 00:28:13,124 --> 00:28:14,785 God, this place reeks. 352 00:28:28,506 --> 00:28:30,804 - Go, go, go! - Move out! 353 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:35,835 Go, go, go, go! Go, go! Go! Go, go! Drop your packs! Go! 354 00:28:37,015 --> 00:28:38,346 All clear! 355 00:28:42,153 --> 00:28:44,485 - Jesus, you needed some exercise? - He got lost. 356 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:47,320 A hundred landing craft heading for one beach and this guy gets lost. 357 00:28:47,392 --> 00:28:49,417 Now I'm glad we did. Jesus, what a mess. 358 00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:52,562 Any theories why they ain't shooting? 359 00:28:53,732 --> 00:28:55,791 It's getting on my nerves. 360 00:28:55,867 --> 00:28:57,926 Maybe they're all dead. 361 00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:01,429 What do you think, Doc? You think they're all dead? 362 00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:27,891 Mike, take six men and bring that gun onto the beach. 363 00:29:27,966 --> 00:29:31,299 Second Platoon, let's move out! Stay down. Come on. 364 00:29:31,803 --> 00:29:33,566 Move! Move! 365 00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:13,144 - Get down! - Take cover! 366 00:30:14,445 --> 00:30:15,776 Move out! 367 00:30:39,604 --> 00:30:41,629 Cover fire! Pour it on! 368 00:30:44,442 --> 00:30:47,605 Ray, shift your fire to the right, now! 369 00:30:57,021 --> 00:30:58,215 Corpsman! 370 00:31:00,258 --> 00:31:03,523 I'm gonna sling your arm and then I'll give you a shot for the pain! 371 00:31:04,495 --> 00:31:06,827 Move, move! Off the beach! 372 00:31:06,898 --> 00:31:08,559 Take cover! 373 00:31:25,850 --> 00:31:27,477 You got a girl back home, Marine? 374 00:31:27,552 --> 00:31:30,214 We're gonna make sure she sees you, all right? 375 00:31:30,288 --> 00:31:32,779 I need pressure on this wound! 376 00:31:40,131 --> 00:31:41,996 Where's the fire coming from? 377 00:31:52,777 --> 00:31:54,506 Where are they? 378 00:31:55,346 --> 00:31:57,576 Look for a flash, shoot at it! 379 00:31:58,750 --> 00:32:00,081 Let's go, let... 380 00:32:17,902 --> 00:32:20,200 Twelve o'clock, take out the bunker! 381 00:32:21,406 --> 00:32:22,703 You're over! 382 00:32:33,084 --> 00:32:35,348 Third Squad, forward! Move! 383 00:32:46,831 --> 00:32:48,696 Where are they, sir? 384 00:32:48,766 --> 00:32:51,894 We got ten o'clock! Ten o'clock, pillbox! Sergeant! 385 00:32:53,471 --> 00:32:56,099 - Sergeant! I think I can clear that out. - What? 386 00:32:56,174 --> 00:32:57,801 All right, you go. Here. 387 00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:00,605 Take these. Check your weapon. 388 00:33:00,678 --> 00:33:02,578 Yeah? Go! Cover! 389 00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:04,046 Cover him! 390 00:33:10,088 --> 00:33:11,555 Cover, cover! 391 00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:18,619 Son-of-a-bitch. 392 00:33:23,735 --> 00:33:25,327 Let's go! Go! 393 00:33:25,403 --> 00:33:26,768 Move it out! 394 00:33:30,008 --> 00:33:31,635 Go, go, go! 395 00:33:34,645 --> 00:33:36,306 Down, down, down! 396 00:33:55,099 --> 00:33:56,396 It's clear. 397 00:33:56,467 --> 00:33:57,866 Good work. 398 00:34:06,310 --> 00:34:07,902 I thought you said it was clear! 399 00:34:07,979 --> 00:34:09,344 It was! 400 00:34:15,153 --> 00:34:18,384 Shit, I guess they're not in there firing at us then. 401 00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:21,191 Lindberg! 402 00:34:21,259 --> 00:34:22,385 Yeah! 403 00:34:22,460 --> 00:34:23,950 Light it up! 404 00:34:27,098 --> 00:34:28,360 I'll cover you, Ice! 405 00:34:28,433 --> 00:34:32,335 Don't cover shit! There's already enough people shooting! 406 00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:35,497 One bullet and this thing goes up like a Roman candle! 407 00:34:35,573 --> 00:34:37,632 Go! Shift fire! 408 00:34:37,708 --> 00:34:38,970 Shift your fire! 409 00:34:39,043 --> 00:34:41,409 Go, go! Shift your fire! 410 00:34:41,712 --> 00:34:43,942 Shift your fire! 411 00:34:49,487 --> 00:34:51,352 Go! Move it out! 412 00:35:18,549 --> 00:35:21,245 Hit the deck! Stay down! Wait for support! 413 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,784 Is this a bad battle or what? 414 00:35:24,856 --> 00:35:26,915 It's a fucking slaughter. 415 00:35:37,869 --> 00:35:39,564 Christ Jesus! 416 00:35:46,444 --> 00:35:49,379 Get a machine gun team set up over here, now! 417 00:35:54,252 --> 00:35:56,186 Thank God! Tanks! 418 00:35:56,254 --> 00:35:59,189 Runner! Get those tanks up here! 419 00:36:01,025 --> 00:36:02,287 Oh, shit. 420 00:36:02,894 --> 00:36:04,191 Get down! 421 00:36:04,762 --> 00:36:07,060 Corporal, watch your left flank! 422 00:36:07,131 --> 00:36:10,396 Let's go without them! Move out! Move out! 423 00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:39,928 Lggy, you gotta lift your side, he's gonna roll off. 424 00:36:39,997 --> 00:36:41,430 Got it, Doc! 425 00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:45,932 Incoming! 426 00:36:51,742 --> 00:36:53,835 Move, move, move, move! 427 00:37:21,772 --> 00:37:23,262 Keep moving! 428 00:37:23,341 --> 00:37:26,003 Get that LVT up on the beach! 429 00:37:27,378 --> 00:37:28,709 Keep moving! 430 00:37:34,852 --> 00:37:36,979 You're next, pal, we're getting you out of here. 431 00:37:41,525 --> 00:37:42,822 Move it! 432 00:37:57,742 --> 00:37:59,073 Great news. 433 00:38:00,511 --> 00:38:04,413 Maybe if you live up on Camp Tarawa, 'cause that's where we're headed. 434 00:38:06,017 --> 00:38:07,314 Not you and me. 435 00:38:07,385 --> 00:38:09,910 Captain Severance asked me who else was in that picture, 436 00:38:09,987 --> 00:38:11,750 and Christ if I could remember, 437 00:38:11,822 --> 00:38:14,916 but it was Mike and Doc and Franklin and me and Hank Hansen 438 00:38:14,992 --> 00:38:17,722 but I just remembered, you were there, too. 439 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,290 I wasn't there. 440 00:38:24,368 --> 00:38:25,892 'Course you were. 441 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:28,438 Neither was Hank. He raised the first flag. 442 00:38:28,506 --> 00:38:30,303 It was Harlon Block that raised that one. 443 00:38:30,374 --> 00:38:33,207 Shit. I told them it was Hank. 444 00:38:34,011 --> 00:38:36,741 You weren't there, Mr. Smart Ass, how'd you know it was Harlon? 445 00:38:36,814 --> 00:38:39,510 - You tell them it was me? - No. Like I said, I just remembered. 446 00:38:39,583 --> 00:38:41,574 Good, keep your mouth shut. 447 00:38:42,053 --> 00:38:44,317 They know there was somebody else, you can see it in the picture. 448 00:38:44,388 --> 00:38:45,480 Then pick someone dead. 449 00:38:45,556 --> 00:38:47,353 They don't want somebody dead, you dumb redskin, 450 00:38:47,425 --> 00:38:49,825 they want to ship us back to the States. 451 00:38:50,294 --> 00:38:52,057 What did I tell you? 452 00:38:54,532 --> 00:38:56,056 I wasn't there. 453 00:38:56,133 --> 00:38:57,623 - You hear? - All right. 454 00:38:58,436 --> 00:39:00,063 Just settle down. 455 00:39:01,272 --> 00:39:04,435 - I'm not going anywhere. - You're not going anywhere. 456 00:39:40,478 --> 00:39:42,207 Who the hell says? 457 00:39:46,283 --> 00:39:48,114 This is horseshit. 458 00:39:51,722 --> 00:39:53,349 You wounded, son? 459 00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:54,918 No, sir. 460 00:39:54,992 --> 00:39:58,655 Well, did you take out a nest of Japs butt-naked with your bare hands? 461 00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:01,789 'Cause if I'm gonna give up my seat to a hero 462 00:40:01,866 --> 00:40:03,731 he better have a good goddamn story to tell. 463 00:40:03,801 --> 00:40:05,166 No, sir. 464 00:40:05,236 --> 00:40:08,865 Then enjoy it, 'cause they'll forget you before Christmas. 465 00:40:34,665 --> 00:40:37,190 The sixth man, you got a name? 466 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,327 Sorry, still don't remember. 467 00:40:39,403 --> 00:40:43,032 It's a damn shame, 'cause I promised the Major you'd know who it was. 468 00:40:43,107 --> 00:40:45,234 Fact, you not knowing throws a doubt on you 469 00:40:45,309 --> 00:40:47,573 being one of the flag-raisers yourself. 470 00:40:47,645 --> 00:40:50,478 Since no one wants to be embarrassed, the moment you land 471 00:40:50,548 --> 00:40:52,413 they'll turn you around, ship you off to Okinawa 472 00:40:52,483 --> 00:40:55,179 in time to meet your buddies on the beach. 473 00:40:55,252 --> 00:40:58,881 So, why don't you stop screwing with me? Give me a damn name. 474 00:41:17,107 --> 00:41:19,598 Gangway! Gangway! Let's go, let's go! Gangway! 475 00:41:19,677 --> 00:41:23,272 Where the hell is that son-of-a-bitch? Hayes! Hayes? 476 00:41:23,781 --> 00:41:25,544 Hayes, get your red ass over here! 477 00:41:25,616 --> 00:41:27,481 Make me look like I don't know what my own men are doing 478 00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:29,712 with a flag the size of my mother's house? 479 00:41:29,787 --> 00:41:31,721 God damn it, Ira, you shouldn't have lied to me. 480 00:41:31,789 --> 00:41:34,087 You made me look like a complete asshole. 481 00:41:34,158 --> 00:41:36,956 We're gonna miss you around here. Good luck. 482 00:41:43,701 --> 00:41:46,033 Now your name's in the paper, too. 483 00:41:50,407 --> 00:41:53,535 Just heard your doctor say we're postponing your operation. 484 00:41:53,611 --> 00:41:55,704 You're being shipped back to the mainland. 485 00:41:55,779 --> 00:41:59,715 Everybody who saw that picture thought planting the flag meant victory. 486 00:42:00,818 --> 00:42:03,514 That's all they wanted to know. Victory. 487 00:42:04,522 --> 00:42:08,788 Within a few weeks of that picture being taken, half the men in it were dead. 488 00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:12,693 Mrs. Hansen! Mrs. Hansen! Did you know Hank was a hero? 489 00:42:12,763 --> 00:42:14,890 - Are you proud of him, Mrs. Hansen? - What was he like as a boy? 490 00:42:14,965 --> 00:42:16,057 Look this way, please, ma'am. 491 00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:17,361 What do you have to say about your son? 492 00:42:19,904 --> 00:42:22,964 But somehow being a part of it meant something. 493 00:42:23,774 --> 00:42:28,473 Looking at it, you could believe their sacrifice was not a waste. 494 00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:35,918 Yeah, I might have thought that was Harlon, too. 495 00:42:35,986 --> 00:42:37,146 It is. 496 00:42:38,689 --> 00:42:42,090 Belle, their names are right here. It's not him. 497 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:47,790 And he would be alive and sitting right here if it wasn't for you. 498 00:42:48,532 --> 00:42:52,127 You think about that when you look at his picture, Ed. 499 00:43:59,570 --> 00:44:01,936 And I need to rush home and change 500 00:44:02,006 --> 00:44:05,874 because there's the Governor's banquet and then there's the parade. 501 00:44:05,943 --> 00:44:09,174 Imagine, the Governor is coming here to meet us. 502 00:44:09,246 --> 00:44:11,077 Now, I'm wearing blue so, if... 503 00:44:11,148 --> 00:44:13,378 - Are you going to change? - We interrupt this program to bring you 504 00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:14,974 a special news bulletin from CBS World News. 505 00:44:15,052 --> 00:44:19,079 A press association has just announced that President Roosevelt is dead. 506 00:44:19,156 --> 00:44:21,716 The President died of a cerebral hemorrhage. 507 00:44:21,792 --> 00:44:26,161 All we know so far is that the President died at Warm Springs in Georgia. 508 00:44:27,464 --> 00:44:29,762 Further updates every hour. 509 00:44:29,933 --> 00:44:32,128 Temperatures will remain the same today, 510 00:44:32,202 --> 00:44:35,069 in the mid-30s to low 40s with clear skies. 511 00:44:35,139 --> 00:44:36,436 Hello? 512 00:44:37,174 --> 00:44:39,267 Yes. Of course. 513 00:44:40,044 --> 00:44:43,172 No, we understand. It wouldn't be right. 514 00:44:45,215 --> 00:44:46,546 Thank you. 515 00:44:50,387 --> 00:44:53,550 Here he is, gentlemen. Senator Boyd, Senator Robson. 516 00:44:53,624 --> 00:44:57,321 Senator Haddigan. I'd like you to meet Private First Class Ira Hayes. 517 00:44:57,428 --> 00:44:59,328 Damn good to meet you. 518 00:44:59,396 --> 00:45:01,762 Proud to make your acquaintance, son. 519 00:45:06,570 --> 00:45:07,730 Sorry? 520 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:12,370 That's Pima Indian talk, boy, don't you know your own language? 521 00:45:12,443 --> 00:45:15,071 Took forever to memorize the damn gibberish. 522 00:45:15,145 --> 00:45:18,672 Sorry, I've been away from the reservation too long, Senator. 523 00:45:24,588 --> 00:45:25,919 - Doc. - Ira. 524 00:45:25,989 --> 00:45:28,958 And now, the heroes of Iwo Jima! 525 00:45:29,026 --> 00:45:32,291 - That's you. - Go, go, go, go. Go. 526 00:45:32,362 --> 00:45:34,057 Please welcome 527 00:45:34,765 --> 00:45:38,394 Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley, 528 00:45:39,636 --> 00:45:43,094 Private First Class Ira Hayes, 529 00:45:44,475 --> 00:45:48,434 Private First Class Rene Gagnon! 530 00:46:18,041 --> 00:46:20,874 Holy shit. 531 00:46:21,478 --> 00:46:24,447 Come in, come in, come in. Bud Gurber, Treasury Department. 532 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:26,142 - Rene Gagnon. - Bud Gurber. 533 00:46:26,250 --> 00:46:28,878 - You showing the boys the sights? - We saw a hell of a ball game. 534 00:46:28,952 --> 00:46:31,250 That's great. The bar's there, help yourself. 535 00:46:31,321 --> 00:46:33,289 I got some briefing sheets for you here, 536 00:46:33,357 --> 00:46:35,188 just some simple things we want you to say. 537 00:46:35,259 --> 00:46:38,751 Mostly, "Buy bonds," can't say that too often. 538 00:46:38,829 --> 00:46:40,990 Itineraries, those are changing every couple minutes. 539 00:46:41,064 --> 00:46:43,555 Everybody wants to meet you guys. 540 00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:47,001 I got women sending up envelopes with stockings in them, 541 00:46:47,070 --> 00:46:50,301 notes written in lipstick. We won't mention that to the press, am I right? 542 00:46:50,374 --> 00:46:52,842 Have a drink, for Christ's sake. 543 00:46:52,910 --> 00:46:55,276 My God, what you boys must have seen over there. 544 00:46:55,345 --> 00:46:57,040 I've been watching the newsreels. 545 00:46:57,114 --> 00:46:59,742 Jesus Christ, that was a fight and a half. 546 00:47:00,751 --> 00:47:04,710 So, we got a hell of a lot of money to raise, not a lot of time. 547 00:47:04,788 --> 00:47:06,847 White House tomorrow, then we trot you over 548 00:47:06,924 --> 00:47:08,482 to shake hands with a couple of hundred Congressmen 549 00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:10,083 who won't pull a penny out of their pockets. 550 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,422 Politicians and actors. 551 00:47:11,495 --> 00:47:12,587 You put them in a restaurant together, 552 00:47:12,663 --> 00:47:14,563 they'd die of old age before picking up the check. 553 00:47:14,631 --> 00:47:17,566 Then New York City, Times Square, 554 00:47:17,634 --> 00:47:20,626 dinners with various hoi polloi, then Chicago... 555 00:47:20,704 --> 00:47:22,604 Who are these "Gold Star Mothers"? 556 00:47:22,673 --> 00:47:25,904 That's what we're calling the mothers of the dead flag-raisers. 557 00:47:25,976 --> 00:47:27,841 You present each mother with a flag, 558 00:47:27,911 --> 00:47:30,436 they say a few words, people will shit money. 559 00:47:30,514 --> 00:47:32,038 It'll be so moving. 560 00:47:32,115 --> 00:47:34,811 But this says Hank Hansen's mom. 561 00:47:34,885 --> 00:47:37,353 Lovely woman. She knows how close you and her son were. 562 00:47:37,421 --> 00:47:38,820 He wrote home about you. 563 00:47:38,889 --> 00:47:41,449 She is very, very much looking forward to meeting you. 564 00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:43,618 Hank wasn't in the picture. 565 00:47:44,695 --> 00:47:45,889 Sorry? 566 00:47:46,763 --> 00:47:48,890 Hank didn't raise that flag. 567 00:47:49,299 --> 00:47:51,563 He raised the other one, the real flag. 568 00:47:51,635 --> 00:47:55,162 The what? The real... The real flag? There's a real flag? 569 00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:56,797 Yeah, ours was the replacement flag. 570 00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:59,240 We put it up when they took the other one down. 571 00:47:59,309 --> 00:48:02,073 Am I the only one getting a headache here? You know about this? 572 00:48:02,145 --> 00:48:04,170 It was after it was already in the papers. 573 00:48:04,248 --> 00:48:05,681 The mothers had already been told, but... 574 00:48:05,749 --> 00:48:08,877 That's it, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. 575 00:48:08,952 --> 00:48:10,112 Yeah, why tell me? 576 00:48:10,187 --> 00:48:12,849 I'm only the guy that has to explain it to 150 million Americans. 577 00:48:12,923 --> 00:48:14,652 Who is in the goddamn picture? 578 00:48:14,725 --> 00:48:16,693 Are any of you guys in the goddamn picture? 579 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,660 Yeah, we're in the goddamn picture. 580 00:48:18,729 --> 00:48:21,823 Six guys raising a flag over Iwo Jima. Victory is ours. 581 00:48:21,899 --> 00:48:23,298 You're three of them, right? 582 00:48:23,367 --> 00:48:26,461 This was the fifth day, sir. The battle went on for 35 more. 583 00:48:26,536 --> 00:48:29,767 Well, what'd you do, raise a goddamn flag every time you stopped for lunch? 584 00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:31,432 Can I hit this guy? 585 00:48:31,508 --> 00:48:33,942 You know what, I don't give a shit, you're in the picture, 586 00:48:34,011 --> 00:48:36,571 you raised the flag, that's the story we're selling, boys. 587 00:48:36,647 --> 00:48:40,344 Are you deaf? Hank isn't in the picture. Harlon is in the picture. 588 00:48:40,417 --> 00:48:42,112 Well, who the fuck is Harlon? 589 00:48:42,185 --> 00:48:46,417 Harlon Block. That's whose mother should be here if anyone's should be. 590 00:48:46,857 --> 00:48:50,759 You know, I think this whole damn thing is a farce, you ask me. 591 00:49:10,147 --> 00:49:12,707 You know what they're calling this bond drive? The Mighty Seventh. 592 00:49:12,783 --> 00:49:13,807 They might've called it the 593 00:49:13,884 --> 00:49:15,647 "We're Flat Fucking Broke And Can't Even Afford Bullets 594 00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:17,346 "So We're Begging For Your Pennies" bond drive, 595 00:49:17,421 --> 00:49:20,254 but it didn't have quite the ring. They could've called it that, though, 596 00:49:20,324 --> 00:49:22,315 because the last four bond drives came up so short 597 00:49:22,392 --> 00:49:24,485 we just printed money instead. 598 00:49:24,561 --> 00:49:26,722 Ask any smart boy on Wall Street, he'll tell you 599 00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,960 our dollar is next to worthless, we borrowed so much. 600 00:49:30,033 --> 00:49:32,866 And nobody is lending any more. Ships aren't being built. 601 00:49:32,936 --> 00:49:36,736 Tanks aren't being built. Machine guns, bazookas, hand grenades, zip. 602 00:49:36,807 --> 00:49:39,901 You think this is a farce? You want to go back to your buddies? 603 00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:42,445 Well, stuff some rocks in your pockets before you get on the plane 604 00:49:42,512 --> 00:49:44,810 because that's all we got left to throw at the Japanese. 605 00:49:44,881 --> 00:49:47,315 And don't be surprised if your plane doesn't make it off the runway 606 00:49:47,384 --> 00:49:49,113 because the fuel dumps are empty. 607 00:49:49,186 --> 00:49:51,916 And our good friends, the Arabs, are only taking bullion. 608 00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:54,321 If we don't raise $14 billion, 609 00:49:54,391 --> 00:49:58,088 and that's million with a "B," this war is over by the end of the month. 610 00:49:58,161 --> 00:50:00,652 We make a deal with the Japanese, we give whatever they want 611 00:50:00,731 --> 00:50:02,631 and we come home, because you've seen them fight, 612 00:50:02,699 --> 00:50:05,065 and they sure as shit ain't giving up. 613 00:50:05,135 --> 00:50:06,830 $14 billion. 614 00:50:06,903 --> 00:50:10,100 The last three drives didn't make that much all together. 615 00:50:12,609 --> 00:50:13,906 People on the street corners, 616 00:50:13,977 --> 00:50:17,208 they looked at this picture and they took hope. 617 00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,373 Don't ask me why, I think it's a crappy picture myself. 618 00:50:19,449 --> 00:50:21,917 You can't even see your faces. 619 00:50:21,985 --> 00:50:25,819 But it said we can win this war, are winning this war, 620 00:50:25,889 --> 00:50:28,187 we just need you to dig a little deeper. 621 00:50:28,258 --> 00:50:29,919 They want to give us that money. 622 00:50:29,993 --> 00:50:31,984 No, they want to give it to you. 623 00:50:32,062 --> 00:50:34,860 But you, you don't want to ask for it. You don't want to give them hope. 624 00:50:34,931 --> 00:50:38,264 You want to explain about this person and that flag. 625 00:50:38,935 --> 00:50:40,994 Well, that's your choice. 626 00:50:41,738 --> 00:50:45,572 Because if we admit we made a mistake, that's all anybody'll talk about 627 00:50:45,642 --> 00:50:47,542 and that will be that. 628 00:50:57,254 --> 00:50:58,414 Gentlemen. 629 00:51:00,223 --> 00:51:02,157 Mr. President, here they are. 630 00:51:02,225 --> 00:51:05,217 - Well, hello. Good to see you. - Mr. President. 631 00:51:05,295 --> 00:51:06,785 Darn good to see you, boys. 632 00:51:06,863 --> 00:51:09,798 Heard you had a hell of a fight on your hands out there, hell of a fight. 633 00:51:09,866 --> 00:51:10,992 Yes, sir. 634 00:51:11,068 --> 00:51:14,595 Ira, you're off the Gila River Reservation in Arizona, am I right? 635 00:51:14,671 --> 00:51:16,468 Yes, Mr. President. 636 00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:20,101 Being an Indian, you are a truer American than any of us. 637 00:51:20,644 --> 00:51:22,976 Bet your people are proud to see you wear that uniform. 638 00:51:23,046 --> 00:51:24,445 Very proud, sir. 639 00:51:24,948 --> 00:51:26,074 They should be. 640 00:51:26,149 --> 00:51:29,846 Well, I want to thank you for coming all this way to Washington to help us out. 641 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,751 You fought for a mountain in the Pacific 642 00:51:31,822 --> 00:51:34,791 now we need you to fight for a mountain of cash. 643 00:51:34,858 --> 00:51:37,520 - And I don't expect you'll let us down. - No, sir. 644 00:51:37,594 --> 00:51:39,459 Good. Go get it. 645 00:51:39,729 --> 00:51:41,754 That's the end of this ceremony. 646 00:51:41,832 --> 00:51:46,269 Let's take a look at this famous photo over here, see if I can pick you out. 647 00:51:46,336 --> 00:51:48,736 My gosh. There you are. 648 00:51:57,714 --> 00:52:02,208 Boys. Boys, this one's on me. To those who can't be with us. 649 00:52:02,919 --> 00:52:04,181 Yes, sir. 650 00:52:06,823 --> 00:52:10,657 Excuse me, Mr. Gagnon. May we have your autograph? 651 00:52:12,295 --> 00:52:13,557 I suppose. 652 00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:16,561 And your name is? 653 00:52:17,100 --> 00:52:18,761 I don't know about you, but I get the impression 654 00:52:18,835 --> 00:52:20,598 I'm drinking with the wrong heroes. 655 00:52:20,670 --> 00:52:24,663 You're such a hero. I feel honored to be in your presence. 656 00:52:25,142 --> 00:52:26,734 That's just not true. 657 00:52:29,513 --> 00:52:32,880 That's professional work. Here, to professionals. 658 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,090 Here they are. You're the guys in the photograph, right? 659 00:52:46,163 --> 00:52:47,755 I heard you were on the train. 660 00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:49,731 Let me shake your hands, John Tennack. 661 00:52:49,799 --> 00:52:51,528 John Bradley. 662 00:52:51,601 --> 00:52:54,399 These boys are with me, Harvard and Yale types, didn't fight a lick. 663 00:52:54,471 --> 00:52:56,200 Pappies all rich sons-of-bitches. 664 00:52:56,273 --> 00:52:58,707 Boys, shake hands with some real war heroes. 665 00:52:58,775 --> 00:53:00,470 Excuse me for one moment. 666 00:53:00,977 --> 00:53:02,604 You can buy them a drink while you're at it. 667 00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:05,614 That's right. Drinks for these men all the way around. 668 00:53:05,682 --> 00:53:08,276 And you're the other one, aren't you? John Tennack, Tennack Homes. 669 00:53:08,385 --> 00:53:10,410 - Rene Gagnon. - Pleased to meet you. 670 00:53:10,487 --> 00:53:13,183 Have a drink, come on. And here's my card. 671 00:53:13,256 --> 00:53:15,121 Listen to me, Rene, 672 00:53:15,192 --> 00:53:17,922 when you get finished being famous you come see me 673 00:53:17,994 --> 00:53:20,827 because if you can sell bonds, you can sell homes. 674 00:53:20,897 --> 00:53:24,162 Now, they're not gonna build homes anymore, they're gonna deliver them. 675 00:53:24,234 --> 00:53:26,031 - You heard of prefab homes? - No, sir. 676 00:53:26,102 --> 00:53:30,095 Well, you will. And you hang on to that card and you come see me, you hear? 677 00:53:30,173 --> 00:53:31,970 - All right? - Certainly will. 678 00:53:39,849 --> 00:53:41,180 All right. 679 00:53:49,392 --> 00:53:51,587 This sure takes it, huh, Doc? 680 00:53:53,129 --> 00:53:55,996 If Mike and the guys could see us. 681 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,760 Yeah, they'd hardly believe it, would they? 682 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:03,638 Harlon! 683 00:54:06,843 --> 00:54:08,242 Franklin! 684 00:54:11,915 --> 00:54:14,315 Can you imagine Franklin 685 00:54:15,619 --> 00:54:17,416 on this train 686 00:54:18,588 --> 00:54:23,582 eating at the dining car with all the silver? 687 00:54:27,998 --> 00:54:30,125 We shouldn't be here, Doc. 688 00:55:05,669 --> 00:55:09,400 There's gonna be a Hallelujah Day 689 00:55:09,472 --> 00:55:13,306 When the boys have all come home to stay 690 00:55:13,376 --> 00:55:17,278 And a million bands begin to play 691 00:55:17,347 --> 00:55:20,874 We'll be dancing the Victory Polka 692 00:55:20,950 --> 00:55:24,886 And when we've lit the torch of liberty 693 00:55:24,954 --> 00:55:27,445 In each blacked-out land across the sea 694 00:55:27,524 --> 00:55:30,925 Ira! Hey, Ira! We heard the picture was posed! 695 00:55:30,994 --> 00:55:32,018 What? 696 00:55:32,095 --> 00:55:34,325 We heard you posed the picture! 697 00:55:34,397 --> 00:55:35,659 Hey, Doc! 698 00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,070 We're bigger than life, Doc! 699 00:55:46,142 --> 00:55:47,734 And we'll heave a mighty sigh 700 00:55:47,811 --> 00:55:51,577 When each gal can kiss the boy she kissed goodbye 701 00:55:51,648 --> 00:55:55,345 And they'll come marching down Fifth Avenue 702 00:55:55,418 --> 00:55:59,616 The United Nations in review 703 00:55:59,689 --> 00:56:03,386 When this lovely dream has all come true 704 00:56:03,460 --> 00:56:09,524 We'll be dancing the Victory Polka 705 00:56:14,104 --> 00:56:15,196 Good job. 706 00:56:15,271 --> 00:56:16,431 Thank you. 707 00:56:25,415 --> 00:56:26,973 Thank you, girls! 708 00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:28,449 And now, 709 00:56:29,486 --> 00:56:32,944 here are the men you've been waiting to meet, 710 00:56:33,022 --> 00:56:34,887 the men in white. 711 00:56:34,958 --> 00:56:38,985 Right behind me here, the heroes of Iwo Jima, 712 00:56:39,062 --> 00:56:42,498 Private First Class Rene Gagnon, 713 00:56:42,565 --> 00:56:44,999 Private First Class Ira Hayes, 714 00:56:45,068 --> 00:56:48,401 and Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley! 715 00:57:00,850 --> 00:57:02,249 Thank you. 716 00:57:06,456 --> 00:57:09,948 It's good of you people to come out tonight in support of the war effort. 717 00:57:10,026 --> 00:57:12,654 We really need you to buy bonds, that's for sure. 718 00:57:12,729 --> 00:57:15,391 'Cause we can't win the war without your help. 719 00:57:15,465 --> 00:57:19,094 As far as us being the heroes of Iwo Jima, 720 00:57:20,136 --> 00:57:21,831 that's just not the case. 721 00:57:22,505 --> 00:57:24,439 We really didn't do much at all. 722 00:57:24,507 --> 00:57:26,099 Especially him. 723 00:57:26,843 --> 00:57:28,333 Especially me. 724 00:57:29,212 --> 00:57:31,737 I was just a runner. That's it. 725 00:57:33,016 --> 00:57:34,779 We put up a flag. 726 00:57:34,851 --> 00:57:38,685 The pole we attached it to was heavy, so it took a number of us. 727 00:57:38,755 --> 00:57:41,053 We had our picture taken doing it. 728 00:57:42,125 --> 00:57:45,856 The real heroes are dead on that island. 729 00:57:46,396 --> 00:57:49,957 And we'd appreciate it if you bought bonds in honor of them. Thank you. 730 00:58:07,417 --> 00:58:09,442 Jump on any grenades, Ira? 731 00:58:10,086 --> 00:58:13,214 Take out any machine gun nests I missed? 732 00:58:13,289 --> 00:58:15,757 At least I fired my weapon. 733 00:58:15,825 --> 00:58:17,156 All right, knock it off. 734 00:58:17,227 --> 00:58:19,161 You hit anything or were you too drunk then, too? 735 00:58:19,229 --> 00:58:20,321 What? 736 00:58:20,964 --> 00:58:23,057 Guys! Come on! 737 00:58:23,132 --> 00:58:25,464 Stop it. Knock it off. 738 00:58:45,288 --> 00:58:50,055 The tall man with the high hat will be coming down your way 739 00:58:50,126 --> 00:58:53,289 Get your savings out when you hear him shout 740 00:58:53,363 --> 00:58:55,831 "Any bonds today?" 741 00:58:55,899 --> 00:58:58,834 Any bonds today? 742 00:58:58,902 --> 00:59:01,393 Bonds of freedom that's what I'm selling 743 00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:02,802 Any bonds today? 744 00:59:02,872 --> 00:59:06,239 Rene, right here. Sit between these two boys. 745 00:59:06,876 --> 00:59:09,640 Here comes the freedom man 746 00:59:09,712 --> 00:59:14,775 Asking you to buy a share of freedom today 747 00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,084 ...for us and they need our help. 748 00:59:20,557 --> 00:59:24,550 And, if you think about it, I think you'll realize 749 00:59:24,627 --> 00:59:29,564 that buying more bonds is not just the right thing to do 750 00:59:29,832 --> 00:59:31,732 but the only thing to do. 751 00:59:33,369 --> 00:59:36,395 Yes, this war has gone on too long. 752 00:59:37,607 --> 00:59:41,543 We have given too many lives. And its cost... 753 00:59:41,611 --> 00:59:43,943 - Chocolate or strawberry, sir? - Strawberry. 754 00:59:44,013 --> 00:59:46,379 ...has been far too high. 755 00:59:46,449 --> 00:59:48,349 But if we waver now, 756 00:59:48,418 --> 00:59:53,185 if we don't dig deep and give more than we think we can 757 00:59:53,256 --> 00:59:56,316 then those sacrifices would be wasted... 758 00:59:56,392 --> 00:59:57,791 Chocolate or strawberry, sir? 759 00:59:57,860 --> 01:00:00,420 ...and those lives lost in vain. 760 01:01:39,162 --> 01:01:42,188 Let's move! Go, go! 761 01:02:04,087 --> 01:02:06,920 Easy Six, this is Easy Two, over. Where the hell are our tanks? 762 01:02:06,989 --> 01:02:09,549 Stuck in the sand. Captain says you're to go without them. 763 01:02:09,625 --> 01:02:10,922 Christ. 764 01:02:11,494 --> 01:02:14,361 That's real good work you're doing there, Rene. 765 01:02:15,998 --> 01:02:18,125 All right, prepare to move out. Pass the word. 766 01:02:18,201 --> 01:02:20,965 Second Platoon! Move! Move! Move! 767 01:02:21,037 --> 01:02:24,404 All right, Second Platoon, on your feet! Let's move out! 768 01:02:24,474 --> 01:02:25,805 Jackass. 769 01:02:25,875 --> 01:02:27,467 Let's move out! 770 01:02:29,245 --> 01:02:32,043 Go, go! Move, move, move! 771 01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,350 Corpsman! 772 01:02:48,197 --> 01:02:49,824 Corpsman! 773 01:02:51,734 --> 01:02:54,202 Second Platoon, move out! 774 01:02:59,075 --> 01:03:00,235 Doc! 775 01:03:01,477 --> 01:03:03,377 Doc, get out of there! 776 01:03:11,888 --> 01:03:13,480 Corpsman! 777 01:03:14,423 --> 01:03:15,685 Doc! 778 01:03:23,966 --> 01:03:25,831 Doc, get the hell out of there! 779 01:03:32,608 --> 01:03:35,042 May I have your attention, please. 780 01:03:35,111 --> 01:03:40,777 Train number 48 with service from New York City, Boston, 781 01:03:40,850 --> 01:03:44,718 Rochester, New York, 782 01:03:44,787 --> 01:03:49,156 Toledo, Ohio, and South Bend, Indiana is now arriving on Track 7. 783 01:03:49,225 --> 01:03:53,218 Train number 48 now arriving on Track number 7. 784 01:03:53,296 --> 01:03:55,321 Okay, let's go. Let's go. 785 01:03:58,835 --> 01:04:00,860 - Come on, boys. - Let's go. 786 01:04:01,337 --> 01:04:03,703 - Watch your step, ma'am. - Thank you very much. 787 01:04:24,727 --> 01:04:28,527 Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the heroes of Iwo Jima. 788 01:04:31,067 --> 01:04:33,831 Navy Corpsman John "Doc" Bradley. 789 01:04:36,005 --> 01:04:38,872 Private First Class Ira Hayes. 790 01:04:40,042 --> 01:04:42,772 And Private First Class Rene Gagnon.