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Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945. --- World War, 1939-1945

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In February 1945, some 80,000 U.S. Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Leaders of the Army Air Forces said they needed the airfields there to provide fighter escort for their B-29 bombers. At the cost of 28,000 American casualties, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions dutifully conquered this desolate piece of hell with a determination and sacrifice that have become legendary in the annals of war, immortalized in the photograph of six Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. But the Army Air Forces' fighter operations on Iwo Jima subsequently proved both unproductive and unnecessary. After the fact, a number of other justifications were generated to rationalize this tragically expensive battle. Ultimately, misleading statistics were presented to contend that the number of lives saved by B-29 emergency landings on Iwo Jima outweighed the cost of its capture. In The Ghosts of Iwo Jima, Captain Robert S. Burrell masterfully reconsiders the costs of taking Iwo Jima and its role in the war effort. His thought-provoking analysis also highlights the greater contribution of Iwo Jima's valiant dead: They inspired a reverence for the Marine Corps that proved critical to its institutional survival and its embodiment of American national spirit. From the 7th War Loan Campaign of 1945 through the flag-raising at Ground Zero in 2001, the immortal image of Iwo Jima has become a symbol of American patriotism itself. Burrell's searching account of this fabled island conflict will advance our understanding of World War II and its continuing legacy for the twenty-first century. At last, the battle's ghosts may unveil its ultimate, and most crucial, lessons.

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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

Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Regimental histories --- Caruso, Patrick F., --- United States. --- History. --- Officers --- Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan) --- History, Military

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The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their lives during war

Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 --- Photographs --- Marines --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Flag raising and lowering --- Photographs --- War photography --- Bradley, James, - 1954 --- -Powers, Ron --- Bradley, John, - 1923-1994 --- Hayes, Ira, - 1923-1955 --- Gagnon, Rene --- Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan)

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World War, 1939-1945 --- War photography --- Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945 --- Nationalism and art --- Nationalism and collective memory --- Flags in art. --- Flags --- Photography. --- Flags. --- History --- Political aspects --- Rosenthal, Joe, --- United States.