History Film / FlagsOfOurFathers

* ManOnFire: Several Japanese soldiers are flushed out of a pillbox this way by a Marine with an [=M2=] Flamethrower during the beach landing. Interestingly, this same scene was reused in ''Film/LettersFromIwoJima'' during that film's own beach landing scene.

* RealLife/CoolBoat: The USS ''Texas''(today a Museum ship) is shown as part of the pre-invasion bombardment force.

* TanksForNothing: Strank is immediately relieved upon seeing Sherman tanks making it onto the beach, which are then subsequently destroyed by Japanese artillery.

* BittersweetEnding =/= DownerEnding: The flag raisers who weren't killed in the fighting basically have their lives ruined one way or another.

* DownerEnding: The flag raisers who weren't killed in the fighting basically have their lives ruined. Only one character gets a decent ending.

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* KillEmAll: Six men are in the photo (two in the back row). Of those six, three are later killed on Iwo Jima and one severely wounded. The remaining three die years later.

* JustTrainWrong: At :43:05, an [=EMD=] "F" unit can be seen pulling a train carrying New Hampshire hero Rene Gagnon into Manchester, NH While [=EMD=] was indeed building this style of locomotive starting in 1939, A careful inspection of spotting details reveals the lead loco to be an [=EMD=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F9 F9]], a post-war model not introduced until 1953.
A more appropriate streamliner would have been an [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2532908 EMD E7, preferably in Boston & Maine paint]].
** Not only are the diesels the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2532908 "Minuteman" paint scheme]]. Instead, the engines are painted in their original Burlington Northern paint schemes, a railroad that didn't even exist until 1970 [[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_Northern]]. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existant availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3013819]].

* JustTrainWrong: At :43:05, an [=EMD=] "F" unit can be seen pulling a train carrying New Hampshire hero Rene Gagnon into Manchester, NH While [=EMD=] was indeed building this style of locomotive starting in 1939, A careful inspection of spotting details reveals the lead loco to be an [=EMD=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F9 F9]], a post-war model not introduced until 1953. A more appropriate streamliner would have been an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_FT FT model]]. Later in the film, [=CB&Q=] 9911A averts this due to being a pre-war model.
** Not only are the diesels the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2532908 "Minuteman" paint scheme]]. Instead, the engines are painted in their original Burlington Northern paint schemes, a railroad that didn't even exist until 1970. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existant availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3013819]].

** Not only are the diesels the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold "Minuteman" paint scheme [[http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2532908]]. Instead, the engines are painted in their original Burlington Northern paint schemes, a railroad that didn't even exist until 1970. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existant availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire.

** Not only are the diesels the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold "Minuteman" paint scheme. Instead, the engines are painted in their original Burlington Northern paint schemes, a railroad that didn't even exist until 1970. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existant availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire.

* JustTrainWrong: At :43:05, an [=EMD=] "F" unit can be seen pulling a wartime troop train into town with the heroes aboard. While [=EMD=] was indeed building this style of locomotive starting in 1939, A careful inspection of spotting details reveals the lead loco to be an [=EMD=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_F9 F9]], a post-war model not introduced until 1953. A more appropriate streamliner would have been an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_FT FT model]]. Later in the film, [=CB&Q=] 9911A averts this due to being a pre-war model.
** Not only are the diesel the wrong model, but their paint scheme is incorrect as well. The scene takes place in Manchester, NH in 1945 so the locomotives should be painted in the Boston & Maine Railroad's famous maroon and gold "Minuteman" paint scheme. Instead, the engines are painted in their original Burlington Northern paint schemes, a railroad that didn't even exist until 1970. This is somewhat understandable given the filming location (Glencoe, Illinois) and the almost non-existant availability of Boston & Maine diesels, however a working Boston & Maine streamliner operates at a tourist railroad in New Hampshire.

* ImperialJapan: The film's antagonists.

* YanksWithTanks: The film's protagonists.

''Flags Of Our Fathers'' is a 2006 Creator/ClintEastwood film depicting the Battle of Iwo Jima, particularly [[IwoJimaPose the famous planting of the flag]] on Mount Suribachi, as well as the post-battle and post-war struggles of the three men who raised the flag as they are turned into a propaganda agent by the U.S. press. It was released jointly with ''LettersFromIwoJima'', its POVSequel.

''Flags Of Our Fathers'' is a 2006 ClintEastwood film depicting the Battle of Iwo Jima, particularly [[IwoJimaPose the famous planting of the flag]] on Mount Suribachi, as well as the post-battle and post-war struggles of the three men who raised the flag as they are turned into a propaganda agent by the U.S. press. It was released jointly with ''LettersFromIwoJima'', its POVSequel.

* PropagandaMachine: Part of the plot centers around turning the survivors into celebrities to raise enough money to finish fighting the war.

* PropagandaMachine: Tokyo Rose. The American press as well.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: It's arguable that the surviving flag raisers had it worse off than the ones who died in battle. Ira can never escape his unwanted fame and PTSD and becomes an alcoholic, while Rene lives the rest of his life as a high school janitor. Doc gets off more lightly, but even he wants never to think of any of it again.

* AFateWorseThanDeath: It's arguable that the surviving flag raisers had it worse off than the ones who died in battle. Ira can never escape his unwanted fame and PTSD and becomes an alcoholic, while Rene lives the rest of his life as a high school janitor.

* FakeUltimateHero: Deconstructed with the three men. They all willingly admit that They did nothing heroic and merely survived and are clearly uncomfortable with the level of press They get praising Them as heroes. But They have to pretend anyway to raise money for the war effort. Ira takes it especially badly, becoming a washed-up Alcoholic.

** Iggy was a real-life person whose full name was Ralph Ignatowski. He has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ignatowski his own Wikipedia article]] which details the poor man's final fate.

* IwoJimaPose: The original photo of the Marines who planted the flag during this battle is a significant part of the film's plot, so yeah.

* KillEmAll: Of the six men captured in the flag raising photo, three are killed during fighting on Iwo Jima. Of the remaining three, one dies of alcholism less then ten years later, and the other two die of old age.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: The bayoneting and setting on fire of Japanese soldiers.

** BlessedWithSuck: In one particularly cringe-inducing scene, a family of tourists gets Ira Hayes's supervisor to call him over to shake hands with them and show him off like a trick-pony, after which the father hands Hayes a dollar.)

* JadedWashout: Ira and Rene.