Iwo Jima

Author : Robert S. Burrell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603445177

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The Ghosts of Iwo Jima by Robert S. Burrell Pdf

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.

Author : Eric M. Hammel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781610607254

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Iwo Jima by Eric M. Hammel Pdf

Author : Bill D. Ross
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1986-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780394742885

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Iwo Jima by Bill D. Ross Pdf

An hour by hour account of the largest and most brutal assault ever conducted by the Marine Corps.

Author : Derrick Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782002406

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Iwo Jima 1945 by Derrick Wright Pdf

One of the decisive battles of the Second World War in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as "The most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps " a titanic struggle that eclipsed all that had gone before. Situated halfway along the B-29 Superfortress route to the Japanese mainland, the island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force, but also to the Japanese, 20,000 of whom were deeply entrenched in the island. This book provides a definitive account of the battle, from its origins to its hard-fought conclusion.

Author : Anne Gjelsvik,Rikke Schubart
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850438

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Eastwood's Iwo Jima by Anne Gjelsvik,Rikke Schubart Pdf

With Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood made a unique contribution to film history, being the first director to make two films about the same event. Eastwood's films examine the battle over Iwo Jima from two nations' perspectives, in two languages, and embody a passionate view on conflict, enemies, and heroes. Together these works tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." In this volume, international scholars in political science and film, literary, and cultural studies undertake multifaceted investigations into how Eastwood's diptych reflects war today. Fifteen essays explore the intersection among war films, American history, and Japanese patriotism. They present global attitudes toward war memories, icons, and heroism while offering new perspectives on cinema, photography, journalism, ethics, propaganda, war strategy, leadership, and the war on terror.

Author : Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 161673261X

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Iwo Jima Recon by Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp Pdf

Iwo Jima, February 17, 1945: The mission: to scout the beaches for underwater obstacles and mines and determine whether the soil would support vehicles. Four Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (predecessor to the SEALS) and twenty-two Marine observers-backed by battleships Tennessee and Nevada, a cruiser, several destroyers, and twelve Landing Craft Infantry ships configured as gunboats proceeded with the operation. The story of what followed - the battle for Iwo Jima that no one knows - is fully told for the first time in this book, a heart-stopping account of ill-equipped but heroic forces under fire from an unexpected, overwhelming enemy. Drawing on first-person accounts, deck logs, and after-action reports, Dick Camp brings the action to harrowing life: the thin-skinned reconfigured LCIs fighting it out with the Japanese in a valiant effort to protect the swimmers caught five hundred yards off the beach; the battleship Nevada ignoring orders to withdraw and moving in to knock out the enemys heavy caliber guns; the devastating action - casualities of 40 percent - that very likely saved the actual landing on the 19th.

Author : Richard F. Newcomb
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0805070710

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Iwo Jima by Richard F. Newcomb Pdf

Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

Author : Larry Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393285635

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Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific by Larry Smith Pdf

“A vivid and compelling account by a true master of oral history.” —General James L. Jones, USMC (Ret.), Supreme Allied Commander, Europe On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American marines invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 combatants died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the costliest battles of World War II. Bestselling author Larry Smith lets twenty-two veterans tell the story of this epic clash in their own words; the result is a “superb and fascinating work by one of our nation’s leading oral historians” (Jay Winik, author of April 1865). Iwo Jima includes accounts from the last surviving flag raiser on Mount Suribachi, a Navajo code talker, a retired general, two Medal of Honor recipients, and B-29 flyers. With numerous photographs and maps, Iwo Jima is a stunning history of an emblematic battle and a powerful, personal history of this greatest generation of marines.

Author : James H Hallas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811765282

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Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima by James H Hallas Pdf

The epic Battle of Iwo Jima is recounted through the stories of twenty-eight American soldiers who showed uncommon valor during one of WWII’s most bitter conflicts. When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March of 1945, nineteen-thousand American Marines had been wounded and seven-thousand were dead, a casualty rate of nearly thirty-nine percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines’ bloodiest battle of the Second World War and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. This volume captures the bravery of those who fought in that epic battle through the stories of twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor in recognition of their gallantry under fire.

Author : Major General Fred Haynes, USMC-RET,James A. Warren
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429937924

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The Lions of Iwo Jima by Major General Fred Haynes, USMC-RET,James A. Warren Pdf

"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously wounded. The stories told here, many for the first time, will seem too cruel, too heartbreaking to be believed. As one veteran remarked, "Each day we learned a new way to die." Major General Fred Haynes, then a young captain, is the last surviving office in CT 28 who was intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the team's fight on Iwo Jima. In this astonishing narrative, Haynes and James A. Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines experienced, drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, letters, and interviews with survivors to offer fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag-raising photograph, and the nature of the campaign as a whole.

Author : James Bradley,Ron Powers
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780553902761

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Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley,Ron Powers Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo—three were killed during the battle—were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: “The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back. ” Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.

Author : Derrick Wright
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750994071

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The Battle for Iwo Jima 1945 by Derrick Wright Pdf

Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.

Author : Jack Lucas,D. K. Drum
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786736317

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Indestructible by Jack Lucas,D. K. Drum Pdf

During the battle of Iwo Jima, two enemy grenades landed close to Jack Lucas and his buddies. Jack threw himself on one of the grenades, grabbed the second, and pulled it beneath his body. His buddies were saved, but Lucas was badly injured. Miraculously, he survived-but just barely. For this brave action seventeen-year-old Jack Lucas from North Carolina became the youngest Marine in history to receive the Medal of Honor. Indestructible reveals the rocky road that led Jack Lucas to Iwo Jima, his arduous recovery, and the obstacles Jack overcame later in life. Jack's moving and powerful memoir is a testament to America's greatest generation.

Author : Karal Ann Marling,John Wetenhall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674423151

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Iwo Jima by Karal Ann Marling,John Wetenhall Pdf

Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416532972

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American Spartans by James A. Warren Pdf

The first Marine history in a generation shows how the few and the proud have maintained their extraordinary edge, leading America's armed forces and serving as an example for the other branches over the past six decades.