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The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima

The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima

The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima

The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima

by John C. Shively

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Hardback. New. The 36-day assault on the small volcanic island known as Iwo Jima resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties. The Marines' efforts secured what would become a vital emergency landing strip for crippled B-29s returning from bombing runs. Jim Craig was a platoon commander with the Marines on Iwo Jima. This book presents his story.

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Iwo Jima: two words that will forever bring to mind the thirty-six days of continual, chaotic combat in which the U.S. Marines fought the entrenched Japanese for every inch of the tiny volcanic island. When it was over, more than twenty-six thousand Americans were killed or wounded, and only slightly more than two hundred Japanese defenders survived. Twenty-seven Medals of Honor were awarded—many posthumously. Jim Craig was a platoon commander with the Marines on Iwo Jima. This is his story, as told to his nephew John C. Shively. In a particularly vivid and exciting account of some of the most intense fighting of the Pacific War, the immediacy of the story is heightened by the detail that Shively’s research has added to Craig’s recollections. The result will pull you onto the beach, into the foxhole, and over Mount Suribachi with those who lived, fought, and died on Iwo Jima.

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Title
The Last Lieutenant: A Foxhole View of the Epic Battle for Iwo Jima
Author
John C. Shively
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Hardback
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New
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Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0253347289
ISBN 13
9780253347282
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Place of Publication
Bloomington
This edition first published
2006

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