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Battle of Iwo Jima
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- The mountain was called Suribachi; the island, Iwo Jima.†
Chpt 1. *Iwo Jima = site of bloody WWII battle that showed how hard invading Japan would be
- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- "The real heroes of Iwo Jima," he said once, coming as close as he ever would, "are the guys who didn't come back."†
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- The cancellation indicated it was mailed from Iwo Jima on February 26, 1945.†
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- The quest ended, symbolically, with my own pilgrimage to Iwo Jima.†
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- Not many Americans make it to Iwo Jima these days.†
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- He offered to fly us from Okinawa to Iwo Jima on his own plane.†
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- But two hours later, as we began our descent to Iwo Jima, the clouds suddenly parted and Suribachi loomed ahead of us bathed in bright sun, a ghost-mountain from the past thrust suddenly into our vision.†
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- As the plane banked its wings, circling the island twice to allow us close-up photographs of Suribachi and the outlying terrain, the commandant began speaking of Iwo Jima, in a low voice, as being "holy land" and "sacred ground."†
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- 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.†
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- A visitor is inevitably struck by the impression that Iwo Jima is a very small place to have hosted such a big battle.†
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- Many surviving Marines never saw a live Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima.†
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- The beaches of Iwo Jima had been preregistered for Japanese fire.†
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- Then it was on to the invasion beaches, the sands of Iwo Jima.†
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- More medals for valor were awarded for action on Iwo Jima than in any battle in the history of the United States.†
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- But for half a century he was almost completely silent about Iwo Jima.†
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- 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.†
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- America believed it was another Marine, who also died on Iwo Jima.†
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- Iwo Jima haunted Ira, and he tried to escape his memories in the bottle.†
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- And so they are also a representative picture of Iwo Jima.†
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- I bought a book about Iwo Jima and read it.†
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- I widened my phone searches to include living veterans of Iwo Jima.†
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- A surgeon who later served on Iwo Jima wrote a memoir that included a passage suggesting how rare were Mike's and Harlon's intuitions that they were going to be killed: As I slowly headed back north in my jeep, one of the frequently used war slogans came to mind.†
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- The maneuvers at Camp Tarawa, with its obsidian terrain and its access to the pitching Pacific surf, were designed, as far as was humanly possible, to make the troops live out the assault on Iwo Jima before they got there; to live it out in their reflexes, their instincts, their dreams.†
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- It was inside this dark edifice that a small training staff was told in November of 1944 that "Island X" was Iwo Jima.†
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- Fred Haynes, on Harry the Horse's staff, remembers how the training changed at Camp Tarawa after they secretly studied the maps of Iwo Jima: We knew we would land on Green Beach, right under Mount Suribachi.†
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- Then off for the forty-day sail to Iwo Jima.†
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- —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.†
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- It is a dry wasteland of black volcanic ash that stinks of sulfur ("Iwo Jima" means "sulfur island").†
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- Iwo Jima is an ugly, smelly place.†
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- They give the combatants their first look at Iwo Jima: a small chunk of land in a triangular shape.†
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- I can only imagine what the flagraisers thought as they bent over the Iwo Jima map on the Missoula.†
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- And a few weeks before leaving for Iwo Jima, Captain Dave Severance tries to recommend Mike for the rank of Platoon Sergeant.†
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- 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.†
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- To the Japanese, Iwo Jima represented something more elemental: It was Japanese homeland.†
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- Emperor Hirohito was personally alarmed by the prospect of foreign defilement of his realm at Iwo Jima.†
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- 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.†
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- It was critical that the barbarians not take Iwo Jima.†
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- By now, as he sailed to Iwo Jima with the armada, Smith was the "Patton of the Pacific."†
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- So Iwo Jima would be the battlefield of the personal representatives of the Emperor and the President.†
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- But he was determined to bury that record in the black sands of Iwo Jima.†
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- Filling the horizon were over eight hundred ships, pausing one last time before sailing the final seven hundred miles to Iwo Jima.†
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- And it was for this reason that the battle of Iwo Jima had been ordered.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
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- But the conquest of Iwo Jima was not merely about cutting losses.†
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- The Army Air Force was doing its part to soften up Iwo Jima for the Marines.†
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- 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.†
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- Some optimistically hoped the unprecedented bombing of the tiny island would make the conquest of Iwo Jima a two— to three-day job.†
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Definitions:
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(Battle of Iwo Jima) the bloody 1945 World War II battle in which U.S. forces captured the island from deeply dug-in Japanese defenders and learned how difficult an invasion of Japan would beOn Iwo Jima, about 21,000 Japanese defenders fought from tunnels and bunkers; nearly all were killed, with only a few hundred taken prisoner.
The battle shocked Americans with how fiercely the Japanese fought and how hard it was to capture a small island, helping convince leaders that a direct invasion of Japan’s home islands would be extremely costly.
Around 20,000 Americans were killed or wounded in taking the island, so U.S. casualties outnumbered Japanese casualties even though more Japanese soldiers died.
The battle is also remembered for the famous photograph of six U.S. servicemen raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)