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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 --- War photography --- Bradley, James, - 1954 --- -Powers, Ron --- Bradley, John, - 1923-1994 --- Hayes, Ira, - 1923-1955 --- Gagnon, Rene --- Iwo Jima (Volcano Islands, Japan)