Gagnon was generally known as being one of the Marines who raised the second U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, as depicted in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima by photographer Joe Rosenthal.
Gagnon was born in Cap-Sainte-Anne (now Chicoutimi North). He was a self-taught artist, who first exhibited in Arvida. He then lived in New York City until he moved to Montreal in 1967 and founded the Galerie des peintres canadiens at the…
Then ReneGagnon Jr. explained how he died. She thought Rene went on a trip. A bit of history that our family years later has found some humor in due to how a statement can be taken contextually different then the intended message, and not…
World War II United States Marine. During the Battle for Iwo Jima, he was a USMC Private assigned to E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division. Rene carried the second flag up the mountain slope to replace the…
Norimberský proces (anglicky Nuremberg) je kanadsko-americké dvoudílné docudrama z roku 2000, které natočil kanadský režisér Yves Simoneau [1 ] a které vychází z knižní předlohy Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial Josepha E.