An hour by hour account of the largest and most brutal assault ever conducted by the Marine Corps.
Bill D. Ross was a World War II combat correspondent and the author of Iwo Jima: Legacy of Valor and Peleliu: Tragic Triumph. He died in 1994.
Author's Note
p. xiii
Prologue to Invasion
p. 1
A Gathering of Warriors
p. 23
D-Day: Curtain Time in Hell
p. 57
The Men of Suribachi and Two Flags
p. 83
Brave Men in Navy Blue
p. 113
Five Days of Carnage
p. 131
Of the Living ... and the Dead
p. 175
Halfway to Victory
p. 207
Stalemate and Breakthrough
p. 287
The Final Phase
p. 319
Epilogue
p. 339
Acknowledgments and Postcript
p. 361
Bibliography
p. 367
Index
p. 371
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