Battle Story: Iwo Jima 1945

by Andrew Rawson

Book Overview

The full story of one of the bloodiest battles of the war in the Pacific Operation Detachment, the invasion of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, was the first campaign on Japanese soil and resulted in some of the fiercest fighting of the Pacific campaign. U. S. Marines supported by the Navy and Air Force fought the Japanese both over and underground on the island of volcanic ash, in a battle which was immortalized by the raising of the Stars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752465767
• ISBN13: 9780752465760
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Spellmount Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"