Iwo Jima
Author: Eric M. Hammel
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Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1610607252
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Author: Eric M. Hammel
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Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1610607252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard C. Nalty
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bernard C. Nalty
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 29
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert E. Allen
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-08-31
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1476607508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn February 19, 1945, seven battalions of U.S. Marines landed on the eastern beaches of Iwo Jima. On the southernmost flank, in the shadows of Suribachi, the First Battalion, 28th Marines, stormed ashore into the bloodiest and most renowned of all battles fought by the U.S. Marine Corps. Thirty-six days later, the Marines overran the "Bloody Gorge" and dislodged the last enemy holdouts. The battle was over, but at great cost: 225 of the First Battalion's men died on Iwo Jima. Based on official reports and personal accounts, this is a day-by-day history of the First Battalion, 28th Marines, on Iwo Jima. Each chapter presents an overview of that day's combat and other relevant events, and also contains the text of that day's official regimental and battalion narratives. The text is complemented by a chronology and transcribed muster rolls for February and March 1945.
Author: Richard D. Camp, Dick Camp
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Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781616732615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIwo 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.
Author: Fred Haynes
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2008-08-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1429937920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1945 my father, John Bradley, and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. Now with The Lions of Iwo Jima, [Haynes] helps America understand how it was done."—James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945. The unit, 4,500 men strong, plunged immediately into ferocious combat, and by the time the battled ended, 70 percent of the men in the team's three assault battalions were killed or seriously wounded. The stories told here, many for the first time, will seem too cruel, too heartbreaking to be believed. As one veteran remarked, "Each day we learned a new way to die." Major General Fred Haynes, then a young captain, is the last surviving office in CT 28 who was intimately involved in planning and coordinating all phases of the team's fight on Iwo Jima. In this astonishing narrative, Haynes and James A. Warren recapture in riveting detail what the Marines experienced, drawing on a wealth of previously untapped documents, personal narratives, letters, and interviews with survivors to offer fresh interpretations of the fight for Suribachi, the iconic flag-raising photograph, and the nature of the campaign as a whole.
Author: United States. Marine Corps
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joseph H. Alexander
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James A. Warren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-10-30
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1416532978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first Marine history in a generation shows how the few and the proud have maintained their extraordinary edge, leading America's armed forces and serving as an example for the other branches over the past six decades.
Author: Derrick Wright
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2020-01-23
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 075099407X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.