Monday, February 19, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima began: Ultimately about 60,000 U.S. Marines went ashore, where they began a tough, long battle to seize control of the island from the Japanese who were dug in there. The 36-day battle took the lives of 7,000 Americans and about 20,000 of 22,000 Japanese defenders. We've see a lot of detail about this battle in Clint Eastwood's recent two movies (as a director), Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both of which left me pretty cold.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:36 AM 
