The first Flags of our Fathers trailer has hit the web. The new Clint Eastwood war film that looks at the story of the 6 men who raised up the American Flag at Iwo Jima. Here’s a quick synopsis of the film:
Flags of Our Fathers is based on a New York Times Bestseller book (year 2000) of the same name and is about a man’s quest to learn more about his father, a medical corpsman in WWII at the Battle of Iwo Jima. More than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan, while nearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them. The battle, the largest sea armada invasion ever assembled and the costliest war ever fought by the US Marines, was also a turning point in the war because control of the island of Iwo Jima (Japanese territory) allowed Allied forces to launch B-29 bomber raids into the heart of Japan with the eventual dropping of the Atomic Bomb that would end WWII.
The Flags of our Fathers trailer is in Japanese, but the feel of it is just amazing. I’m looking forward to it.
You can view the Flags of our Fathers trailer here. Thanks to Del for the heads up.
