Flags of Our Fathers

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• The newspapers containing the famous photograph are, in order of being delivered, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Hartford Courant, the San Antonio Express, and lastly the Washington Post.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): During the flag-raising, Mike Strank is shown wearing a soft cap. In the real-life film clip of the flag-raising, shot by Sergeant Bill Genaust, all six of the flag raisers are wearing helmets. In one or two frames at the very beginning of the real-life clip, light, shadow and the camouflage pattern make Strank's helmet look like it might be a soft cap, but he is clearly wearing a helmet in the remaining frames where his head is visible.
• Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Ira, Rene, and Doc are getting off the train there is a band playing for them, one of the alto saxophone players is using a leather ligature on his mouthpiece, a post WWII invention. During WWII they would have used metal ligatures.
• The scene in which a sailor falls from a ship and is left in the water as the fleet steams toward Iwo Jima actually happened. The incident is described in "Iwo" by Richard Wheeler, himself a veteran of the fighting. Quote: "According to Coast Guardsman Chet Hack of LST 763: 'We got the man-overboard signal from the ship ahead of us. We turned to port to avoid hitting him and threw him a life preserver, but had orders not to stop. We could not hold up 24 ships for one man. Looking back, we could see him waving his arms, and it broke our hearts that we couldn't help him. We hoped that one of our destroyers or other small men-of-war that were cruising around to protect us would pick him up, but we never heard that they did.' "