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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
On February 19, 1945, the largest Marine force ever sent into battle launched an assult on Iwo Jima. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire six men battled to the island's highest peak, after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. This is an account of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever.
3) The lions of Iwo Jima: the story of Combat Team 28 and the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The full story of Combat Team 28, one of the greatest units fielded in the history of the U.S. Marines. The unit, 4500 men strong, 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, yet their battle had just begun.
Author
Series
World War II novels (P. T. Deutermann) volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The island of Iwo Jima was the epic land and sea battle that produced one of the iconic images of WWII: the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Surabachi, an active volcano that was the site of intense hand to hand combat. In this gripping novel, Deutermann follows a young gunnery liaison officer, Lee Bishop, who during the ferocious battle for the island is pulled from his station aboard the USS Nevada to serve on-shore as a spotter, calling...
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertianment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
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