Uncommon valor on Iwo Jima : the story of the Medal of Honor recipients in the Marine Corps' bloodiest battle of World War II
(2016)
By:
Hallas, James H
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Stackpole Books, 2016
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780811765282 MWT12450555, 0811765288 12450555
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines' bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history
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