The Ghosts of Iwo Jima

The Ghosts of Iwo Jima

Author: Robert S. Burrell

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 160344517X

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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.


Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima

Author: Larry Earl Smith

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780393062342

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An account of the 1945 battle documents the significant losses on both sides, the controversy surrounding the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal, and the alleged suicide of Japanese general Tadamichi Juribayashi.


Eastwood's Iwo Jima

Eastwood's Iwo Jima

Author: Anne Gjelsvik

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2013-07-16

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0231165641

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Together, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima tell the story behind one of history's most famous photographs, Leo Rosenthal's 'Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'.


Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima

Author: Richard F. Newcomb

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2002-05

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780805070712

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


Iwo Jima Recon

Iwo Jima Recon

Author: Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781616732615

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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.


Indestructible

Indestructible

Author: Jack Lucas

Publisher: Da Capo Press

Published: 2009-03-25

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0786736313

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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.


The Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima

Author: Steven Otfinoski

Publisher: Tangled History

Published: 2019-08

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1543575587

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On February 19, 1945, U.S. Marines landed on a tiny Pacific Island called Iwo Jima. Facing rugged terrain and a deeply entrenched enemy, they embarked on a fierce five-week battld to take the island and its airfields from the Imperial Japanese Army. Through vivid storytelling, experience one of the most important battles of World War II.


Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima

Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima

Author: James H Hallas

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2023-06-14

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 0811765288

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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.