IWO JIMA


Easy Company started with 310 men. We suffered 75% casualties. Only 50 men boarded the ship after the battle. Seven officers went into the battle with me. Only one--me--walked off  Iwo." . . . Captain Dave Severance, Easy Company Commander (the Flag Raising Company)

 

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"Flag raising on Iwo Jima." Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, February 23, 1945. 80-G-413988.

 

THE MEN IN THE PICTURE

THE ISLAND

WHY WAS IT THE BLOODIEST BATTLE OF WWII?

WAS THE BATTLE WORTH THE COST?

RESOURCES

 

 



 

Lea (Kathe) Myrick
March 5, 2001