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Title

Uncommon valor on Iwo Jima : the story of the Medal of Honor recipients in the Marine Corps' bloodiest battle of World War II / James H. Hallas.

Author

Hallas, James H.

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Stackpole Books, an imprint of Globe Pequot, Trade Division of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

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Description

xiv, 405 pages; 24 cm

Summary

When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines' bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. Focuses on the twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor and the actions that earned the award: Accounts of men at war showing gallantry under fire in one of the country's most storied engagements; Recounts the entire Battle of Iwo Jima through its most dramatic moments.

Alternative Title

Story of the Medal of Honor recipients in the Marine Corps' bloodiest battle of World War II

Subject

• United States. Marine Corps > Biography
• United States. Marine Corps
• Iwo Jima, Battle of (Japan : 1945)
• 1945
• Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
• Marines > United States > Biography
• Medal of Honor
• Marines
• Medal of Honor
• Japan
• United States

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Opening bell -- Round I -- Into the hills -- A shower of stars -- War of attrition -- Final bell -- Appendix: Medal of Honor citations.

ISBN

• 9780811717953
• 081171795X

LCCN

^^2015047355

OCLC

• 931860804
• SCSB-10951215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library