The Battle of Iwo Jima

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An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized by Joe Rosenthal’s photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a giant U.S. flag atop 550 foot high Mt. Suribachi,

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This 1945 Video is in the Public Domain.

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Some interesting footage…Thanks…

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Okay…who know’s what type mortar this is?
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wow. original combat footage. thanks for posting. Japan renamed the Island Iwo To, as it was known before the war. this came about because of Eastwoods movie. at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been hijacked by high-profile movies like Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima.”
In Japanese, the original name Iwo To is written with the same characters as Iwo Jima and means the same thing - Sulphur Island - but it is pronounced differently.