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...people died there--with awful suddenness. The first thing to understand is that this was just a drop in the cauldron that was World War II, which, globally, cost at least 50 million lives. We Americans lost more men in our victories--more than 6,000 at Iwo Jima, for example, 12,000 at Okinawa--than we did in that defeat. This is one of the many things you won't learn from the blockbuster movie on the subject that opened last week. Perhaps more important, of the 408,439 service members who gave their lives in the war, only...
DIED. DOUGLAS JACOBSON, 74, World War II Marine hero who at the age of 19, in one of the greatest feats of the war, singlehandedly knocked out 16 Japanese hillside fortifications on Iwo Jima, for which he won the Medal of Honor; of congestive heart failure; in Port Charlotte...
Months earlier John Bradley had been one of the six men immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's one-in-a-million photograph of the flag raising atop Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi. After the war, Tibbets went home to Columbus, Ohio, to eventually run a corporate-jet service and shun publicity. Bradley returned home to Antigo, Wis., to become a funeral director and community pillar. He never told war stories...
...qualms about Hiroshima should fade after reading James Bradley's Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam; 376 pages; $24.95). With the help of Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Ron Powers, Bradley rediscovers the carnage of Iwo Jima through the stories of the flag raisers. His father is the one in the center of the photo, the only man whose face can be seen...
...Jima's numbers are appalling. Practically all the defenders were annihilated or committed suicide. The Marines suffered some 20,000 casualties, including nearly 6,800 dead. That is one-third of all the leathernecks killed in the entire war. Were it not for the atom bomb, tens of thousands of Americans and their Allies would have died during the planned invasion of Japan. If that seems too remote, think of it this way: Bradley, Greene and perhaps even you, reader, might not have been born...