TY - BOOK ID - 135045074 TI - Nightmare on Iwo Jima PY - 2007 SN - 0817380469 9780817380465 9780817354480 0817354484 PB - Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Regimental histories KW - Caruso, Patrick F., KW - United States. KW - History. KW - Officers KW - Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) KW - History, Military UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135045074 AB - On February 19, 1945, the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions stormed ashore from a naval support force. Among them was green young lieutenant Pat Caruso who became de facto company commander when the five officers ranking him were killed or wounded. He led his rapidly diminishing force steadily forward for the next few days, when a day's gains were measured in yards. Caruso was eventually wounded himself and was evacuated. Realizing that the heroism of his comrades would be lost by the decimation of his unit, Caruso latched onto any paper he could find and filled every blank space with his memo ER -