[COMPLETE] Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima, by Joseph H. Alexander - icequeen
Sections 8,9, and 10 PL OK!
Man that was some horrific fighting! I always vaguely knew Iwo Jima was awful but the details were still shocking.
Colleen
Man that was some horrific fighting! I always vaguely knew Iwo Jima was awful but the details were still shocking.
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
The whole Pacific Campaign was pretty brutal. I'm a retired Marine and generally know the broad brush strokes of this history, but it's been a good post-career history lesson in detail for me.
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Thank you for your service!
I can't imagine what it must have been like to be sitting in the first landing wave boats on D-Day or some of these Pacific islands knowing how long the odds were there you even make it out of the water let alone off the beach.
Colleen
I can't imagine what it must have been like to be sitting in the first landing wave boats on D-Day or some of these Pacific islands knowing how long the odds were there you even make it out of the water let alone off the beach.
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai