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unusual facts about Louis R. Loeffler


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Other Academy Awards nominations were for Best Cinematography (Leon Shamroy), Best Art Direction (Lyle R. Wheeler and set decorator Gene Callahan), Best Costume Design (Donald Brooks), and Best Film Editing (Louis R. Loeffler).


Louis R. Douglass

Douglass also served in the United States Army Quartermaster Corps during World War I, with responsibility for the construction of Army hospitals at Leon Springs, Texas, as well as U.S. Army General Hospital No. 7 in Baltimore, Maryland, and at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan.

Douglass was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Boulder City and served as a Junior Warden from 1955 to 1960.

He was initially charged with responsibility for sewers, sewage disposal and cantonments at Leon Springs, Texas (near San Antonio).

In 1933, Douglass was hired as a design engineer by the Denver office of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, he was assigned to the civil engineering office.

Louis R. Harlan

Diagnosed with liver cancer, he died in Lexington, Virginia at the age of 87 and was survived by his wife, Sadie, two sons, Louis and Benjamin, and a grandchild.

Louis R. Lowery

The first American flag raised and planted on Iwo Jima was too small to be seen easily from the nearby landing beaches, so a second, larger replacement flag with a longer and heavier flag pole was raised and planted by five Marines and a Navy corpsman resulting in the famous photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1945.

He was portrayed by actor David Hornsby in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers.

Louis R. Rocco

He earned his high school general equivalency diploma during his tour there.

Raymond Jacobs

Jacobs spent his later years working hard to prove that he was the Marine radio operator photographed by Louis R. Lowery, (a photographer with Leatherneck magazine), standing beneath the first American flag raised by Marines on Mount Suribachi.


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