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Robert Leckie
The Battle for Iwo Jima
CONTENTS
1. THE MARINES GO IN
2. THE IMPORTANCE OF IWO
3. THE TERRIBLE FIRST DAY
4. THE FLAG FLIES AT SURIBACHI
5. THE UP-ISLAND DRIVE
6. INTO THE MEATGRINDER
7. BREAKTHROUGH
8. ÆTILL THE LAST MAN
ORDER OF EVENTS IN THE INVASION
NOTE ON UNIT STRENGTH
MARINES WHO WON THE MEDAL OF HONOR
THE BATTLE FOR IWO JIMA
ROBERT LECKIE was born in Philadelphia, the youngest in an Irish-Catholic family of eight children. Growing
...It did not seem possible that anything–especially human beings–could survive on little Iwo. And indeed there was no answering fire from the tiny dark island. All was strangely quiet. To the south, the volcano Mount Suribachi rose 550 feet above the sea. Just north of it, on the islandÆs east coast, were the landing beaches: silent, black and sinister. Then fading away to the north was a jumble of ridges rising to a high plateau.
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