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Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific

by Larry Smith

The men who fought and survived the deadliest battle of the Pacific come to life in this powerful oral history. On February 19, 1945, nearly 70,000 American soldiers invaded a tiny volcanic island in the Pacific. Over the next thirty-five days, approximately 28,000 soldiers died, including nearly 22,000 Japanese and 6,821 Americans, making Iwo Jima one of the... (more)

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I love oral history. There's nothing like listening to war stories from those that were really there. This book on Iwo Jima is a series of interviews with vets from that horrible battle in 1945. Many can not believe we turned the island back over to the Japanese. So many stories of heroism on the Sulfur Island....you wonder how men can summon such courage.

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