www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVVdSX_gDH0

Iwo Jima is located in the middle of the road between Japan and long-distance bomber bases the United States in the Mariana Islands. Japanese soldiers used Iwo Jima as an early warning station which broadcast radio signals warning the United States bomber attack that led to the main islands of Japan.

After Iwo Jima captured the United States, Japan lost its early warning system. United States then used Iwo Jima as a runway for an emergency landing bombers damaged, and had saved many American lives.

Iwo Jima is a volcanic island shaped like a trapezoid. Marines who landed on this island called pork chop gray. When invaded Iwo Jima, United States Marine soldiers were killed in large numbers because the island heavily guarded by the Japanese.

Iwo Jima scene is dominated by Mount Suribachi (166 m). Mount Suribachi is an inactive volcano located at the southern tip of the island. In geographical distribution of Japan, Iwo Jima was under the administration of Tokyo Prefecture.

This island is the first Japanese islands seized by the United States. For the Japanese, defend the island from the invasion of the United States as well as maintaining an honor.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zza5xou_fHg

Tactically, the top of Suribachi is the most important place on Iwo Jima. From the top of the strategic Suribachi, Japanese soldiers who defended Iwo Jima can be accurately fired artillery toward the American soldiers who landed on the beach.

The island was defended by Japanese soldiers who hid out in a series of bunkers and pillbox. Not infrequently after disabling a Marine soldier pillbox with a grenade or a flame thrower, a few minutes later a shot back to bark from the same hole.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKbnWTKKVn8

Japanese infantryman can sneak out into the pillbox that is connected with a series of underground tunnels that complicated. United States Army efforts mainly focused to isolate and capture of Mount Suribachi, and this effort achieved four days after the battle began on February 23, 1945. Although Suribachi was taken, prolonged fighting is still going on, and Iwo Jima could not say "safe" until 31 days later, on March 26, 1945.

Don't forget to see "Letters from Iwo Jima" movies..

Letters from Iwo Jima [Blu-ray] List Price: $24.98 Sale Price: $15.49 You save: $9.49 (38%)

Description Critically hailed as an instant classic, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima is a masterwork of uncommon humanity and a harrowing, unforgettable indictment of the horrors of war. In an unprecedented demonstration of worldly citizenship, Eastwood (from a spare, tightly focused screenplay by first-time screenwriter Iris Yamashita) has crafted a truly Japanese film, with Japanese dialogue (with subtitles) and filmed in a contemplative Japanese style, serving as both complement and counterpoint to Eastwood's previously released companion film Flags of Our Fathers...

Letters from Iwo Jima (Two-Disc Special Edition) List Price: $19.98 Sale Price: $17.49 You save: $2.49 (12%)

Description Critically hailed as an instant classic, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima is a masterwork of uncommon humanity and a harrowing, unforgettable indictment of the horrors of war. In an unprecedented demonstration of worldly citizenship, Eastwood (from a spare, tightly focused screenplay by first-time screenwriter Iris Yamashita) has crafted a truly Japanese film, with Japanese dialogue (with subtitles) and filmed in a contemplative Japanese style, serving as both complement and counterpoint to Eastwood's previously released companion film Flags of Our Fathers...

	Sands of Iwo Jima List Price: $14.98 Sale Price: $13.99 You save: $0.99 (7%)
	Description This classic World War II actioner has Wayne as a tough but compassionate Marine Corps sergeant, John M. Stryker. Tough name, too. Stryker's job is to turn a bunch of raw recruits into a fighting machine...

Letters from Iwo Jima [HD DVD] List Price: $34.99 Sale Price: $4.45

Description Critically hailed as an instant classic, Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima is a masterwork of uncommon humanity and a harrowing, unforgettable indictment of the horrors of war. In an unprecedented demonstration of worldly citizenship, Eastwood (from a spare, tightly focused screenplay by first-time screenwriter Iris Yamashita) has crafted a truly Japanese film, with Japanese dialogue (with subtitles) and filmed in a contemplative Japanese style, serving as both complement and counterpoint to Eastwood's previously released companion film Flags of Our Fathers...

Heroes of Iwo Jima List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $13.49 You save: $1.46 (10%)

Description The flag-raising atop Mt. Suribachi during the epic World War II battle of Iwo Jima is the focus of this stirring documentary narrated by actor and ex-Marine Gene Hackman. James Bradley, son of one of the flag-raisers and author of the best selling Flags of Our Fathers, relates many of the stories surrounding the men who fought at Iwo Jima, and retired Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who snapped the classic photograph, also offers his battlefield recollections...

	Flags of Our Fathers List Price: $7.99
	Description The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would die defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan, while nearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them...

	I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $10.19 You save: $4.80 (32%)
	Description I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off 3,000 Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15-member unit was reduced to three men...

	The Lions of Iwo Jima List Price: $16.99
	Description The Lions of Iwo Jima tells the full story of one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. Combat Team 28, 4500 men strong, trained for a full year, landed on the black sands of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, and raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi after four days of ferocious combat...

	Hero of the Pacific: The Life of Marine Legend John Basilone List Price: $25.95 Sale Price: $17.13 You save: $8.82 (34%)
	Description From New York Times bestselling author James Brady—the story of Marine legend John Basilone, one of three main characters in HBO's The Pacific Hero of the Pacific tells the dramatic, compelling, and all-but-forgotten life story of a small-town boy who became one of World War II?s greatest and best-known heroes...

	So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi's Letters from Iwo Jima List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $10.17 You save: $4.78 (32%)
	Description The Battle of Iwo Jima has been memorialized innumerable times as the subject of countless books and motion pictures, most recently Clint Eastwood’s films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and no wartime photo is more famous than Joe Rosenthal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image of Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi...

Related posts:

1. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

This photo illustrates five soldiers and a soldier's Marine Medical Corps United States Navy, who was flying the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

This photo is very popular, and has a thousand times reprinted in various publications. Pulitzer Prize for Photography was achieved by the photos in the same year the first year of this photograph published. In the United States, this picture is considered as one of the images of war the most important and most valuable, and perhaps as many pictures of the most reproduced in history.

Three of the six soldiers in the photo, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank and killed during the fighting, while three other soldiers who survived, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon and Ira Hayes became a celebrity after recognizable as a soldier in the photo.

The photograph was later used as a model by Felix de Weldon when building the War Memorial Monument United States Marine Corps whose location is across from the Arlington Heroes Cemetery in the suburbs of Washington, DC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFHVHeR7k7g

	Raising the Flag: The Battle of Iwo Jima (Edge Books) List Price: $32.00 Sale Price: $22.78 You save: $9.22 (29%)
	Description Discover the stories behind some of historys deadliest battles. Each book presents the basics of each event, including the forces engaged on each side, the weapons they used, and the aftermath of these epic clashes.

	Hell in the Pacific: The Battle for Iwo Jima (General Military) Sale Price: $24.95
	Description The battle of Iwo Jima was extraordinary for its ferocity. US Marine Corps casualties exceeded by thousands the number of Japanese defenders, who fought almost to the last man over those five desperate weeks...

	The Battle of Iwo Jima: Guerilla Warfare in the Pacific (Graphic Battles of World War II) Sale Price: $14.05

	Island of Terror: Battle of Iwo Jima (Graphic History) List Price: $14.95 Sale Price: $5.60
	Description A key strategic victory that paved the way for the Allied invasion of Japan, Iwo Jima was described by Lieutenant-General Holland Smith, Commander Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, as "the most savage and costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps...

	The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima List Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $12.82 You save: $2.18 (15%)
	Description "Shively has documented in a very readable fashion the transformation of a young Hoosier into a disciplined member of the United States Marine Corps. His book is a detailed and touching tale of one man’s experience of the battle of Iwo Jima, and the many excellent photographs and maps enhance the story...

Related posts:

1. Battle of Iwo Jima
2. Experts Doubt History Hitler Died In Indonesia
3. Stalin Organs – Russian Rocket Launcher