Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Of course as Rosenthal said at one point, if the famous photo had been "staged," he would have made damn sure that the five marines and one corpsman were looking at the camera, so that he could id them left to right and attach home towns...:-) And now to go listen to Patrick Sky sing "Drunken Ira Hayes" and put the whole thing back in perspective. ;-) On 8/21/06 3:38 PM, "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> wrote: > I think Greg hit it right on the head and B.D. missed the boat a bit in > his earlier post. It's been so long since I did any marching all those > stories are foggy. And hell, I never marched that damned good any way. 8-) > > Walt. > > GREG LORENZO wrote: > >>> hoppyman@bigpond.net.au writes: >>> >>> Walt, regarding those particular fighting men, I seem to recall a >>> documentary saying that the famous photo was in fact a restaging of the >>> actual event, similar to Gen McArthur wading ashore more than once. I >>> see no >>> cloned smoke clouds though! >>> >>> >> >> Hoppy, >> >> The famous photo is the second one made that day by Joe Rosenthal. The >> flag >> used in the original photo was deemed to be too small so a second, larger >> flag was obtained from an officer on a ship offshore for the 2nd iconic >> image. In that sense it was 'staged' but this was done to enable both the >> remaining Japanese and American marines fighting to secure the landing >> strip >> and remainder of the island to see that the US had taken Mt. Suribachi >> before >> they had in-fact 'secured it'. >> >> Regards, >> >> Greg >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information