A Day Late

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I wrote a letter to my brother yesterday and when I dated it I realized that Feb. 19th was the day the Marines invaded Iwo Jima.

I found this site on Joe Rosenthal who took the flag raising pic. Also, pics of iwo Jima today. I met a vet who fought there and he was a camera repairman in San Francisco. My landlord's brother also fought there and brought back a beautiful, hand carved pipe with Japanese writing on it. But it's mind boggling to think that almost 30,000 men were killed on the island in one month.

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/27/on-war-joe-rosenthal-and-iwo-jima/1743/

http://www.iwojima.com/today.htm

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No one wants to check out Joe's unseen photos from Iwo and other Pacific battles?

For shame!

[Black Dawg]

Great pics, great story and I am forever grateful or their sacrifices for my freedom.

[zepscoda]

Thanks for the links redrum....the men on that island went through a hell you and I will never comprehend.

[zepscoda]

I found this site....."The Battle Of Iwo Jima: 5 Things You Didn't Know."...

http://www.banderasnews.com/1003/nw-iwojima.htm

1- The Battle of Iwo Jima accounted for 1/3 of all Medal of Honor awards for U.S. Marines in WWII

2- The Battle of Iwo Jima was the costliest battle in U.S. Marine Corps. history

3- The U.S. returned the island to Japan

4- Two soldiers didn’t surrender until 1949

5- Navajo code talkers were credited with winning the Battle of Iwo Jima

Edited February 25, 2013 by zepscoda

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Great pics, great story and I am forever grateful or their sacrifices for my freedom.

I thought you would like them. Many I'd never seen before and I never knew that Rosenthal was at these other battles.

He's damned lucky to have gotten out alive himself.

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Thanks for the links redrum....the men on that island went through a hell you and I will never comprehend.

I have a cassette tape of the actual invasion recorded originally on a wire recorder. It's amazing to hear the prop planes firing rockets at the Japs and the reporter describing the beach landing. There's some humor too and a part where a Marine tells the reporter that someone stole a Jap flag from him after he was wounded.

http://www.pimall.co...rerecorder.html

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I found this site....."The Battle Of Iwo Jima: 5 Things You Didn't Know."...

http://www.banderasn.../nw-iwojima.htm

1- The Battle of Iwo Jima accounted for 1/3 of all Medal of Honor awards for U.S. Marines in WWII

2- The Battle of Iwo Jima was the costliest battle in U.S. Marine Corps. history

3- The U.S. returned the island to Japan

4- Two soldiers didn't surrender until 1949

5- Navajo code talkers were credited with winning the Battle of Iwo Jima

The Code Talkers had the Japs totally bamboozled.

It was a true slaughterhouse. A good book on Iwo is titled 'The Friendly Dead'