American Spartans: The U.S. Marines: A Combat History from Iwo Jima, Paperback - James A. Warren

From the islands of the Pacific to Korea to the Middle East, James A. Warren's riveting and authoritative battle history of the Marines reveals how...

Reducere. The following letters were handwritten by Dad, William Walter (Billy) Doar. Many were written from the war zone off the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima,...

Reducere. DescriptionThe battle of Iwo Jima was one of the bloodiest campaigns of WWII. Under the command of Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the Japanese ...

Reducere. By choice, chance and God's hand, I survived some extremely trying times in the Marine Corps during World War II.I decided not to get mired in the ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan KingFirsthand accounts from Japanese WWII soldiers, sailors and pilots who fought in the battle for Iwo Jima and surviv...

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When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19, 000 American Marines had been wounded and 7, 000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 perc...

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Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of ...

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