过路人
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作者：过路人 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
那张著名照片上的升旗仪式并不是美军在岛上首次升旗，而是把第一面旗帜换成第二面旗帜时拍的，这一点摄影师和军方都承认。真实和艺术是很难恰好凑到一起的。
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True Story Of Iwo Jima Flag Raising
Feb 14, 2003 4:26 pm US/Central
Iwo Jima, Japan (WCCO-TV) Imagine if someone else got the credit for your greatest accomplishment, and then you'll understand the story of Chuck Lindberg.
Lindberg is a decorated war hero from Richfield who risked his life to raise the flag on Iwo Jima. But, for 57 years, his achievement has been largely overshadowed by history and a photograph that Americans will never forget.
"I have been talking about that day for 57 years,” said Lindberg. “We landed on Green Beach, right down, close to the mountain. We had to take the mountain."
Many years ago, on a tiny island in the middle of nowhere... two American flags were raised. One flag, the world would never forget. The story of the other is hidden in history's shadow, along with the old Marine who helped raise it.
"I always thought the truth didn't never hurt anybody,” said Lindberg. “It seems like it does there."
In February of 1945, after four long years of war, the United States military was poised to attack the heart of Japan. But first they had to take the island Iwo Jima.
In preparation for the assault, Iwo Jima was bombed for 72 straight days with little effect. The Japanese weren't on the island; they were in it.
An invisible force, dug into the ground through an elaborate systems of caves, tunnels, and pillboxes. They were trained to fight until death.
But Corporal Chuck Lindberg came ready to fight too, in the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history.
Because Iwo Jima was so close to Tokyo, it was an ideal place to launch fighter jets that could protect bombing runs, and a place to make emergency landings. Iwo Jima had to be taken at any cost, and the costs were high. Of all the Marines who landed on the beaches nearly 7,000 died and close 20,000 were wounded.
On the fourth day of battle, Lindberg and a squad of forty Marines were chosen for a dangerous mission: scale Mt. Surabachi, and plant the American flag where everyone could see it.
"We raised that flag. Down below troops started to cheer,” said Lindberg. “You should've heard it. Ships whistles out in the ocean went off. It was quite a day."
For the Marines, it was a truly historic moment. They had raised the first foreign flag to fly over the Japanese homeland in 4000 years.
"Something you never forget,” said Lindberg “Patriotism was high."
Because of its importance the flag was taken down and saved for history. When a second flag went up to take its place hardly anyone noticed...except a photographer who snapped a picture.
Many consider it one of the greatest photos ever taken. It became the most reproduced image of all time.
"Everybody calls that the Iwo Jima flag raising,” says Lindberg. “It's not, it's a replacement flag. That's exactly what it is."
The photo ushered in a tide of patriotism back home. The heroes were cast in bronze, and forever immortalized. In the eyes of America there was only one flag raising.
"Nobody mentioned the first flag. When I started talking about that after I got home, I was called a liar and everything else. Nobody believed me."
And Lindberg and his fellow first flag raisers virtually ceased to exist. After a lifetime in history's shadow, there's finally some recognition for Lindberg's achievement.
In Long Prairie, Minnesota, the first monument dedicated solely to the first flag raisers. Today, as the last survivor of either flag raising, this old Marine is still fighting. Fighting to tell the world what really happened on a tiny island, in the middle of nowhere, so long ago.
"We were the first flag raisers on Iwo Jima."
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Joe Rosenthal - Pulitzer Prize Picture -- Iwo Jima Flag Raising
I was coming up toward the brow of the hill and I was possibly 200 feet away. I stopped because emerging, and as I came closer, I could see this small flag, waving on a very long pole. And it gave me a jolt then, and I get it now – that was our flag. And I went up, not knowing what kind of a picture I would get, certainly wouldn’t be of a flag going up, because it was already up. And I walked around. As I, as I came closer, closer to the pole, I saw kneeled on the ground, there were, I believe, three Marines fooling around a pole that was on the ground and one of them had tucked under his arm, in that usual triangular fashion which you fold the American flag . And I said, “What’s doing, fellas?” And they said to me something like, “We’re preparing to raise this bigger flag. The colonel down below wants a bigger flag so it can be seen by the troops all over the island,” the rest of the troops, for morale sake, or for and he said also “He wants to make damn sure he got that first flag back.” From the way they, they said it to me, I understood that it would be a simultaneous exchange. And so, one would come down as the other went up. And then I started thinking about the possible picture itself. And I thought, it’s chancy. Most of this kind of stuff is like shooting a football play, you know, things can change so quickly in action. The position might be awkward or I might miss it entirely. And then I estimated where they would be, where the flag would be, how tall is this thing, how much far back I need to get in order to get them in. Bill Genaust, the Marine photographer with the movie camera, came across in front and went just to my right and said, “I’m not in your way, am I, Joe?” And I turned and I said, “No, that’s fine. Hey, there it goes, Bill.” They had just lifted the pole off the ground and it was on its way up. I swung my Graphic around close up to my face and held it watching through the finder to see when I could estimate what’s the peak of the picture. And I thought it should look good. And I had no, I wasn’t referring to, even in my own mind, first, the importance of first flag, second flag. I wanted a flag going up on Iwo, and I wanted it badly. And I could only hope that it turned out the way that I looked at it through the finder.
作者：过路人 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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