A single shot can end the war.
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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as John 'Doc' Bradley
AliveBorn: September 10, 1974
Age: 51
New Castle, Delaware, USA
as Rene Gagnon
AliveBorn: May 28, 1979
Age: 47
Norwalk, Connecticut, USA
as Ira Hayes
AliveBorn: November 11, 1972
Age: 53
Ashern, Manitoba, Canada
as Keyes Beech
AliveBorn: June 25, 1963
Age: 63
Plano, Texas, USA
as Bud Gerber
AliveBorn: August 13, 1962
Age: 64
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
as Mike Strank
AliveBorn: April 4, 1970
Age: 56
Cambell River, British Columbia, Canada
as Ralph "Iggy" Ignatowski
AliveBorn: March 14, 1986
Age: 40
Billingham, Stockton on Tees, England, UK
as Hank Hansen
DeceasedBorn: September 12, 1973
Died: November 30, 2013
Age at death: 40
as Colonel Chandler Johnson
AliveBorn: November 5, 1958
Age: 67
Marietta, Georgia, USA
as Captain Severance
AliveBorn: February 13, 1966
Age: 60
Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
as Pauline Harnois
AliveBorn: May 16, 1977
Age: 49
New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand
as James Bradley
AliveBorn: June 7, 1966
Age: 60
New Providence, New Jersey, USA
as Commandant Vandegrift
AliveBorn: October 28, 1966
Age: 59
Los Angeles, California, USA
as Belle Block
AliveBorn: September 4, 1951
Age: 75
El Paso, Texas, USA
as Madeline Evelley
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Franklin Sousley
AliveBorn: May 28, 1986
Age: 40
New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
as Harlon Block
AliveBorn: June 21, 1982
Age: 44
Cartersville, Georgia, USA
as Lindberg
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Lundsford
AliveBorn: March 21, 1986
Age: 40
Monterey, California, USA
as Gust
AliveBorn: September 30, 1978
Age: 47
Dallas, Texas, USA
as John Bradley
DeceasedBorn: April 1, 1928
Died: October 2, 2007
Age at death: 79
as Dave Severance
DeceasedBorn: September 14, 1933
Died: June 30, 2009
Age at death: 75
as Walter Gust
AliveBorn: June 18, 1934
Age: 92
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
as Mr. Beech
AliveBorn: September 30, 1939
Age: 86
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
as Ed Block
AliveBorn: October 22, 1948
Age: 77
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
as Belle's Young Son
AliveBorn: February 20, 1989
Age: 37
Statesboro, Georgia, USA
as Mother Gagnon
AliveBorn: September 18, 1949
Age: 76
Gadsden, Alabama, USA
as Mrs. Sousley
AliveBorn: July 10, 1953
Age: 73
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
as Mrs. Strank
AliveBorn: January 30, 1956
Age: 70
Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
as Mrs. Bradley
AliveBorn: June 25, 1940
Age: 86
Davenport, Iowa, USA
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