Iwo Jima: Legacy of ValorAn hour by hour account of the largest and most brutal assault ever conducted by the Marine Corps. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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aboard airstrip American ammunition artillery and mortar ashore assault attack barrage battalion battle beaches beachhead blast bombardment bombs bullets bunkers Captain carrier casualties caves Chichi Jima combat command post Company D-Day D-plus dead defenses demolitions Division's enemy Erskine evacuation explosives Fifth Division fighting firepower flamethrowers fought Fourth Division foxhole front Guam hand grenades heavy hell Higgins boats Hill Howlin hundred yards invasion island Iwo Jima Iwo's Japan Japanese killed Kitano Point knew Kuribayashi landing craft Lieutenant Colonel lines machine gun machine gun fire Makalapa Marine Corps Medal of Honor miles minutes mortars Motoyama Number moved naval Navy night officers outfit Pacific Pearl Harbor pillboxes planes platoon positions Private First Class push radio ravine Regiment ridge rifle roared runway Saipan Seabees sergeant ships shore slopes Smith sniper Suribachi tanks terrain Third Division thousand Tokyo told troops Turkey Knob weapons wounded