Click2Flicks - Flags of our Fathers - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS</i>:</p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch2.htm">2. A PACIFIC EMPIRE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch3.htm">3. DANGEROUS OPPONENTS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch4.htm">4. DEATH IN CHINA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch5.htm">5. ABOUT IWO JIMA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch6.htm">6. THE ARMADA ARRIVES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch7.htm">7. JAPAN'S IWO JIMA DEFENSES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch8.htm">8. JUST A MOP-UP?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch9.htm">9. D-DAY: 19 FEBRUARY 1945</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch10.htm">10. THE UNBROKEN CODE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch11.htm">11. INCHING TOWARD SURIBACHI</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch12.htm">12. A FLAG-RAISING ON SURIBACHI</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch13.htm">13. THE REPLACEMENT FLAG RAISERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch14.htm">14. THE FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch15.htm">15. FLAG RAISERS DIE IN BATTLE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch16.htm">16. SECURING IWO JIMA</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch17.htm">17. IWO JIMA MEDALS OF HONOR</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch18.htm">18. SURVIVORS RAISE CASH</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch19.htm">19. WHY IWO JIMA WAS CAPTURED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch20.htm">20. FIRE BOMBS OVER TOKYO</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch21.htm">21. THE REST OF THEIR LIVES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="flags_fathers_ch22.htm">22. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><a name="preface"><b><u>PREFACE</u></b></a></font></p> </div> <div align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size=3 color=000000><b><i>When you go home<br> Tell them for us and say<br> For your tomorrow<br> We gave our today</i></b></font><br><br> Memorial inscription<br> <a href="images/temporary.jpg" target="_blank">Temporary</a> <a href="images/cemetery.jpg" target="_blank">Cemetery</a><br> <a href="images/IwoJima_Cemetery.jpg" target="_blank">Iwo Jima Island</a><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000">An armada of American ships steamed toward the Japanese island of <a target="_blank" href="images/iwojima.jpg"><b>Iwo Jima</b></a> in February of 1945. Aboard the vessels were <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/iwojima-1.htm" target="_blank"><b>70,647</b></a> United States Marines. Boys mostly, averaging in age between seventeen and nineteen, they had trained about one year for the coming battle. They would make an <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/iwojima_cap.htm" target="_blank"><b>amphibious landing</b></a> on the black beaches of this tiny Pacific island, 660 miles south of Tokyo.</p> <p>Most noticeable, as this speck of land came into view, was a “mountain” on its southern end. Rising more than five hundred feet, <a target="_blank" href="images/Mt.%20Suribachi.jpg"><b>Mt. Suribachi</b></a> is a dormant volcano. <i>Inside</i> it, as the American ships approached, were dug-in, heavily armed Japanese defenders.</p> <p>Allied forces had already experienced deadly encounters with Japanese soldiers on other Pacific islands. But Iwo Jima would be significantly worse. <i>This</i> piece of windswept land, totaling eight square miles, was special to the Emperor and his people. <i>This</i> island was actually part of Japan. And no foreign invader had set foot on Japanese soil in thousands of years.</p> <p>Iwo Jima, as the Marines soon learned, would be a fight to the death.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="flags_fathers_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>