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  • We were in it quite a while while the war was on, from Iwo Jima to the Philippines and then down south to Yap.†   (source)
  • As we meet here in this peaceful historic chamber tonight, men from the South, some of whom were at Iwo Jima, men from the North who have carried Old Glory to the far corners of the world and who brought it back without a stain on it, men from the east and from the west are all fighting together without regard to religion or color or region in Vietnam.†   (source)
  • Many years after the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Second World War ended, two Japanese soldier came out of hiding on the island and surrendered.
  • The Battle of Iwo Jima is a historical fact.†   (source)
  • These Indians got treated the same as anyone: Wake Island, Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Many of the young Marines, in their giddiness, assumed that the battle of Iwo Jima was over.†   (source)
  • The first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima had come to an end.†   (source)
  • "The subject," for him, could never merely be the battle of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • And it was for this reason that the battle of Iwo Jima had been ordered.†   (source)
  • Pauline and Rene Gagnon en route to Iwo Jima, 1965.†   (source)
  • Henry put the American flag up on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • And besides, we don't even know Harlon is on Iwo Jima."†   (source)
  • But the conquest of Iwo Jima was not merely about cutting losses.†   (source)
  • In 1964, when he was forty and I was nine, my father hinted at why he couldn't talk about Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • He offered to fly us from Okinawa to Iwo Jima on his own plane.†   (source)
  • The irony, of course, is that Doc Bradley was indeed a hero on Iwo Jima—many times over.†   (source)
  • It was because the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • In one square mile of Iwo Jima, a photograph showed 5,000 bomb craters.†   (source)
  • I bought a book about Iwo Jima and read it.†   (source)
  • "No Iwo Jima stamp!" thundered the Postmaster General.†   (source)
  • Then off for the forty-day sail to Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Pauline, Rene, and Rene Gagnon, Jr., dedicate the Iwo Jima Motel, Arlington, Virginia.†   (source)
  • The impending conquest of Suribachi was far from the only action on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • But in fact, Iwo Jima was becoming "harder."†   (source)
  • Many surviving Marines never saw a live Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • And I think I may add, having Iwo Jima in mind, the situation is well in hand.†   (source)
  • I can only imagine what the flagraisers thought as they bent over the Iwo Jima map on the Missoula.†   (source)
  • Yet in one month on Iwo Jima, one third of their total deaths occurred.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima three-cent stamp, issued July 11, 1945.†   (source)
  • The first night on Iwo Jima brought its own special horrors.†   (source)
  • On Iwo Jima, the defenders constructed fifteen hundred underground rooms.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima stands as America's most heroic battle.†   (source)
  • Every man on Iwo Jima knew the island would be his grave.†   (source)
  • The Japanese troops on Iwo Jima were hardened veterans.†   (source)
  • His memories of Iwo Jima had nothing to do with The Photograph.†   (source)
  • But he was determined to bury that record in the black sands of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • I read his citation over and over and was so proud of him and his life-saving actions on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • But on Iwo Jima we'd bulldoze a single grave a hundred feet long, ten feet wide.†   (source)
  • But these Iwo Jima Marines would always be distinct in her memory.†   (source)
  • The beaches of Iwo Jima had been preregistered for Japanese fire.†   (source)
  • The invasion of Iwo Jima was a Navy operation.†   (source)
  • I saw the shifting of the bodies on the Iwo Jima beach.†   (source)
  • The quest ended, symbolically, with my own pilgrimage to Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • But no one mentioned Iwo Jima or The Photograph.†   (source)
  • This knowledge provided some comfort to the boys who had fought on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The Bradleys in a Japanese blockhouse, Iwo Jima, 1998.†   (source)
  • It was critical that the barbarians not take Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • It held no significance to those on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The enormous battlewagons out in the ocean were blasting Iwo Jima with sheets of one-ton shells.†   (source)
  • The heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come back."†   (source)
  • And that was how I learned about one special hero of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The cancellation indicated it was mailed from Iwo Jima on February 26, 1945.†   (source)
  • Kuribayashi transformed Iwo Jima into the equivalent of one huge blockhouse.†   (source)
  • John Wayne and John Bradley on the set of The Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949.†   (source)
  • The number-one motivation on Iwo Jima was to stand with your buddies and not let them down.†   (source)
  • But since that 1945 Iwo Jima stamp, there have been two more.†   (source)
  • And Donald Howell spoke for many when he declared, "I just got on with my life after Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Then it was on to the invasion beaches, the sands of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • You've all seen pictures of six Americans raising our flag on Iwo Jima!†   (source)
  • Not many Americans make it to Iwo Jima these days.†   (source)
  • To the Japanese, Iwo Jima represented something more elemental: It was Japanese homeland.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima haunted Ira, and he tried to escape his memories in the bottle.†   (source)
  • By the fall of 1944 a veritable city of 22,000 was functioning below the surface of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • And an Iwo Jima silver dollar was minted just last year.†   (source)
  • Below this appeared an enlarged photo of Iwo Jima with eighteen strategic points identified.†   (source)
  • Do you think that Ira Hayes, hero of Iwo Jima, is worth a second chance?†   (source)
  • The next time the boys would feel the earth under their feet, it would be on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country.†   (source)
  • Like the worm, which becomes stronger the more you cut it up, Iwo Jima thrived on our bombardment.†   (source)
  • He only spoke of Iwo Jima once, on our first date.†   (source)
  • Probably no phrase in the English language was as torturous to Ira Hayes as "Iwo Jima hero."†   (source)
  • They give the combatants their first look at Iwo Jima: a small chunk of land in a triangular shape.†   (source)
  • That was the constant question at Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • By now, as he sailed to Iwo Jima with the armada, Smith was the "Patton of the Pacific."†   (source)
  • I think of Doc, my twenty-one-year-old father-to-be, on that LST sailing to Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • And so they are also a representative picture of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima would be his last battle, the last time he would command "my Marines."†   (source)
  • I write this letter exactly fifty-two years to the day since the flagraising on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The Army Air Force was doing its part to soften up Iwo Jima for the Marines.†   (source)
  • They were buried on Iwo Jima along with almost 7,000 American boys and 22,000 Japanese boys.†   (source)
  • The image even overwhelmed the naming of the film, whose title became Sands of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Easy's original total force on Iwo Jima was 310 young men, including replacements.†   (source)
  • She added: "It is appropriate that Rene will be interred very near to the Iwo Jima monument.†   (source)
  • Ira drank to escape the images of horror burned into his brain on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • America believed it was another Marine, who also died on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • On the following day and for the rest of the week, Iwo Jima remained the number-one news story.†   (source)
  • I widened my phone searches to include living veterans of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • "Iwo Jima hero!" was the inescapable salutation.†   (source)
  • The Joint Chiefs had made the capture of Iwo Jima the main Allied objective in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • But for half a century he was almost completely silent about Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • A Marine who had island-hopped across the Pacific from Tarawa to Iwo Jima, Ed had seen the world by the time he was twenty and come back to West Virginia to forget it.†   (source)
  • Although I am temporarily lodged at Castleton Academy in Pompey, New Hampshire, my home is at 1245 Iwo Jima Avenue, Fort Delta, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Then he made me promise I would be a pilot when I entered the service, that he didn't want any son of his getting killed on some godforsaken beach like Iwo Jima, especially a son he loved as much as he did me.†   (source)
  • In that way it was not much different than if they had died at Wake Island or Iwo Jima: the bodies were dismembered beyond recognition and the coffins were sealed.†   (source)
  • Idefine myself in this way: I am the son of Thomas Patrick McLean of Savannah, Georgia, a volatile, brawling man who attended Benedictine High School and Carolina Military Institute, and as a Marine captain won a Navy Cross for his valor under fire during the invasion of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Maybe this accounts for my father's remarkable silence about the Battle of Iwo Jima and the flagraising.†   (source)
  • For Easy Company, and for many thousands of other Marines, the real Battle of Iwo Jima was only about to begin.†   (source)
  • Several months later, the 2nd Battalion filed its "Action Report" for its role in the Battle of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • In fact, much of the world would assume—given 4,574 U.S. casualties and the triumphal raising of the American colors on February 23—that the Battle of Iwo Jima was over.†   (source)
  • Now Danny knelt beside the place where Chick lay buried and made a silent promise: a promise that had nothing to do with wars or flags or nations or the Century of the Pacific that the Battle of Iwo Jima had forged.†   (source)
  • The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like the catacombs of the Colosseum, and American gladiators aboveground, exposed on all sides, using liquid gasoline to burn their opponents out of their lethal hiding places.†   (source)
  • More medals for valor were awarded for action on Iwo Jima than in any battle in the history of the United States.†   (source)
  • How many troops would be on Iwo Jima?†   (source)
  • American forces might have captured Iwo Jima in the early weeks of 1945, but today the island is a part of Japan's sovereign state.†   (source)
  • Unlike Normandy's beaches, which fell quiet after twenty-four hours, the Iwo Jima shoreline continued to absorb casualties for days.†   (source)
  • I saw you cry on that Iwo Jima, Dad.†   (source)
  • "Reading a book on Iwo Jima at home would have been like reading a Playgirl magazine," my sister Barbara remarked once.†   (source)
  • Two of her sons were on active duty: Mike on Iwo Jima, and Pete, a sailor aboard the USS Franklin in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • American intelligence analysts had many aerial photographs of Iwo Jima, but they rarely revealed a Japanese soldier.†   (source)
  • But not in vain: Their charge would mark the beginning of the end for "impregnable" Suribachi—and thus for Iwo Jima itself as a factor in the war.†   (source)
  • My sister Kathy hit a similar wall when she asked Dad to speak about Iwo Jima to her grade-school class.†   (source)
  • At the recent Massachusetts dedication of their new Iwo Jima statue, I felt you guys there beside me.†   (source)
  • In January of 1947 the U.S. government began the long process of transporting the bodies of the Marines slain on Iwo Jima back home.†   (source)
  • At Iwo Jima the figure would double.†   (source)
  • "They'd spot me in the field, rush up to me with their cameras and ask, 'Are you that Indian that raised the flag on Iwo Jima?'†   (source)
  • A crippled B-29 returning from an attack on Tokyo, the Dinah Might, became the first American plane to make an emergency landing on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July with an Iwo Jima Flagraising float, they perceive it's their inspiration.†   (source)
  • Their churning craft would approach Iwo Jima on schedule, only just before it was time to assault the beaches.†   (source)
  • Trading was halted as the ticker sign flashed, WELCOME IWO JIMA HEROES, and the traders erupted in applause.†   (source)
  • The story told how the judge dismissed the case when he learned he was dealing with "John Bradley of Iwo Jima."†   (source)
  • When I began my search for my father's past I asked my mother to tell me everything he had ever said to her about Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Low on ammunition and food, Easy's troops munched what was left of their chocolate bars and waited for yet another dawn on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • "I went to Mom and asked her about it and she said, 'Your father feels the real heroes are the men who died on Iwo Jima.'†   (source)
  • It screamed: "You've seen the photo, you've heard him on the radio, now in person in Milwaukee County Stadium, see Iwo Jima hero John H. Bradley!"†   (source)
  • The Marines were on Iwo Jima to stay.†   (source)
  • "The real heroes of Iwo Jima," he said once, coming as close as he ever would, "are the guys who didn't come back."†   (source)
  • Neither I nor any of my five brothers and two sisters ever read a book about Iwo Jima while my father was alive.†   (source)
  • The movie would portray Marines training in New Zealand, fighting on Tarawa, on leave in Hawaii, and in the closing few minutes, landing on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • By the time he was finished, Iwo Jima would become the most heavily fortified island of World War II.†   (source)
  • The fireworks filled the night sky with the outlines of the American flag, the face of President Truman, and the Iwo Jima flagraising scene.†   (source)
  • They drew up specifications for the backbone of Iwo Jima's defense—a subterranean cave system connected by tunnels.†   (source)
  • Then at the last moment the Navy added a final insult: There would be even fewer ships available for the shelling of Iwo Jima than agreed upon.†   (source)
  • Some optimistically hoped the unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a two— to three-day job.†   (source)
  • It is a dry wasteland of black volcanic ash that stinks of sulfur ("Iwo Jima" means "sulfur island").†   (source)
  • Such a sentiment from a historian or even from another Marine who had fought on Iwo Jima would be sacrilegious.†   (source)
  • Eight days earlier, en route to Iwo Jima, Major Dollins had received news of the birth of his first child, a daughter.†   (source)
  • And a few weeks before leaving for Iwo Jima, Captain Dave Severance tries to recommend Mike for the rank of Platoon Sergeant.†   (source)
  • If you think you will see real action like Iwo Jima by seeing the picture I really think you will be sadly disappointed.†   (source)
  • "I understand you are one of the men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima!" he began with a bright look in his eyes.†   (source)
  • An Iwo Jima commemorative stamp was issued on July 11, the anniversary of the founding of the Marine Corps Reserve.†   (source)
  • Soon, even though little of the movie concerned Iwo Jima, the flagraising image became central to its marketing.†   (source)
  • John Wayne also served The Photograph, in Sands of Iwo Jima, the first Hollywood movie to depict the flagraising.†   (source)
  • Filling the horizon were over eight hundred ships, pausing one last time before sailing the final seven hundred miles to Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • On March 17, Japanese Prime Minister Kuniaki Koiso went on the radio to announce the defeat of General Kuribayashi's defenders on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Within days Pauline, the day-to-day worker in the Chicopee mills, was enjoying a new national nickname: She was "The Sweetheart of Iwo Jima."†   (source)
  • She assured the Americans that while huge ships were needed to transport them to Iwo Jima, the survivors could later fit in a phone booth.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima February 27, 1945 Dearest Mother, As you probably already know we hit Iwo Jima February 19th just a week ago today.†   (source)
  • Except that they had a different collective name: Sometimes they were the "Iwo Jima flagraising heroes"; usually, they were simply "the heroes."†   (source)
  • Emperor Hirohito was personally alarmed by the prospect of foreign defilement of his realm at Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Attention had now begun to shift away from Iwo Jima, even as the great bulk of the bloodletting began.†   (source)
  • "We didn't speak of Iwo Jima," Schmidt remembered, "other than to remark what good buddies the Marines were.†   (source)
  • The lanyard was pulled, the protective draping swung free, and the Iwo Jima memorial statue took its place amidst the sacred icons of the nation.†   (source)
  • By March 21, the invasion force on Iwo Jima had been attacking for thirty-one consecutive days—a sustained effort unique in modern warfare.†   (source)
  • When the small swatch of color fluttered, Iwo Jima was transformed, for a few moments, into Times Square on New Year's Eve.†   (source)
  • So Iwo Jima would be the battlefield of the personal representatives of the Emperor and the President.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance would be awarded a Silver Star for his masterful guidance of Easy Company throughout the Iwo Jima invasion.†   (source)
  • A visitor is inevitably struck by the impression that Iwo Jima is a very small place to have hosted such a big battle.†   (source)
  • February 23, 1945, dawned cold and stormy like the other days on Iwo Jima; but by midmorning the rain had stopped and the skies were clearing.†   (source)
  • As the Marines climbed, they beheld Iwo Jima for the first time from the perspective of the Japanese.†   (source)
  • Kuribayashi was also in his personal quarters—a system of caves and tunnels seventy-five feet below the surface of Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Years after your death she told me that you had assured her with a smile, "Emi, Iwo Jima was a long time ago.†   (source)
  • No one suspected it, but the photograph suggested a very different reality from that being experienced by the Marines back on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Papers across the country ran the story on page one, with "Rene Gagnon" and "Iwo Jima Flag" umbilically attached in the headlines.†   (source)
  • But as with anyone who had walked in the black sands, Iwo Jima would remain the defining event of his life.†   (source)
  • I think the answer is summed up in his belief that the true heroes of Iwo Jima were the ones who didn't come back.†   (source)
  • The dedication of the Iwo Jima monument at Arlington provided Ira with a brief moment of public dignity; his last, as things turned out.†   (source)
  • It was inside this dark edifice that a small training staff was told in November of 1944 that "Island X" was Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • But I was entranced with it, and confidently explained to the veteran of Iwo Jima seated across the table from me that it was his side that was to blame.†   (source)
  • The biggest obstacle a B-29 pilot faced on his bombing run from Tinian and Saipan to Japan was the lethal triple whammy of danger presented by Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • —FROM THE LAST LETTER OF AN IWO JIMA–BOUND MARINE THERE WERE NO CHEERING CROWDS to see Mike, Harlon, Ira, Doc, Rene, and Franklin off as they departed Camp Tarawa.†   (source)
  • He opened a funeral home; fathered eight children; joined the PTA, the Lions, the Elks; and shut out any conversation on the topic of raising the flag on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • 'Iwo Jima' means Sulfur Island."†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima would be bombed for seventy-two consecutive days, setting the record as the most heavily bombed target and the longest sustained bombardment in the Pacific War.†   (source)
  • The California Legislature passed a resolution calling on the Post Office to issue an Iwo Jima Flagraising stamp to honor the bravery of the American fighting man.†   (source)
  • There was reason to believe the battle for Iwo Jima would be even more ferocious than the others, reason to expect the Japanese defender would fight even more tenaciously.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima burst onto the front page of The New York Times on Monday, February 19, under the bold lead headline: U.S. MARINES STORM ASHORE ON IWO ISLAND.†   (source)
  • Whatever his thoughts as he lay down to sleep on his LST, he didn't know that on Iwo Jima the Japanese soldiers had special rules regarding the treatment of Navy corpsmen like him.†   (source)
  • Iwo Jima is an ugly, smelly place.†   (source)
  • The governor of Kentucky had proclaimed November 10 "Iwo Jima Day" in that state in honor of Franklin, and Goldie came to the ceremonies in Washington.†   (source)
  • As he was approaching Iwo Jima in an LCT in the company of Bill Hipple, a magazine correspondent, the boatswain told Rosenthal he had just heard on his radio that a patrol was climbing Suribachi.†   (source)
  • The story began, "Two men who took part in the historic Iwo Jima flagraising sounded a note of sadness and disillusionment today as Buffalo jubilantly celebrated the first anniversary of V-J Day."†   (source)
  • On the same day, a twenty-four-year-old Navy nurse named Norma Harrison, from Mansfield, Ohio, landed on Iwo Jima—the first of seven landings she would make there.†   (source)
  • Marines accounted for eighty-four of these decorations, with an astonishing twenty-seven awarded for just one month's action on Iwo Jima, a record unsurpassed by any battle in U.S. history.†   (source)
  • He told us how as a young, unmarried man you boarded a cramped boat with thousands of other young Marines and shipped off to Iwo Jima to either live or die.†   (source)
  • In Boston, the newspapers unknowingly began to perpetuate the single most tragic and painful of all the errors that adhered to the flagraising on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • The Army Air Force concluded after the war that Iwo Jima–based planes destroyed more B-29's on the ground, in raids on Tinian and Saipan, than were lost on all the bombing runs over Tokyo.†   (source)
  • The flagraising on Iwo Jima became a symbol of the island, the mountain, the battle; of World War II; of the highest ideals of the nation, of valor incarnate.†   (source)
  • Fully eight days had elapsed after the Saipan invasion before the first photo reached the U.S. But at Iwo Jima, the process was accelerated, and streamlined.†   (source)
  • The night before he flew to Iwo Jima in the second week of June 1944, he had a private meeting with Emperor Hirohito, an almost unheard-of honor for a commoner.†   (source)
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