It was Yoko who secured the interview with Japanese Iwo Jima veteran Tsuruji Akikusa.
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Despite his experience, Marty returned to the island of Iwo Jima 25 years later after the battle.
He told us about spending his first night on Iwo Jima in a foxhole with two men.
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One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago.
When he saw Joe Rosenthal's picture of the flag-raising in Iwo Jima he made a plaster model of the scene.
From the Great Wall in China to the World War II battles of Iwo Jima, a cruise-led history lesson can span thousands of years.
When Anthony Marshall landed on Iwo Jima in 1945, half his platoon was mowed down, others were maimed and the 20-year-old lieutenant was wounded in the foot.
This is a claustrophobic epic, set mostly inside the elaborate network of caves and tunnels that the Japanese have dug in Iwo Jima's sandy hillsides.
It drew on the past - the marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima - and so became a reaffirmation of who Americans believed they were.
Thad Allen, the Coast Guard's chief of staff, who replaced Brown as chief of FEMA's mission in the region last week, briefed Bush aboard the Iwo Jima.
The Battle of Iwo Jima was so ferocious that afterward the Americans estimated they would lose a million men if they attempted to take the Japanese mainland.
In 1995, Brown presented a restored version of the statute to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima.
It depicts five soldiers hoisting the Sri Lankan flag, looking remarkably like the iconic photograph of five marines and a seaman raising Old Glory over Iwo Jima in 1945.
Felix de Weldon's 1954 bronze depicts five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi as Allied forces struggled to capture the Japanese-held island.
On March 8, 1945, serving as a lieutenant with the Fifth Marine Division, he led his platoon against entrenched Japanese positions on Iwo Jima despite being wounded by hand grenades.
At about the same time, the government authorized a foundation for de Weldon to build a much larger flag-raising statue in bronze the 32-foot Iwo Jima monument in Arlington.
He arrived in New Orleans on Sunday and spent the night aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima, which is docked along the riverfront and serves as a command center.
Brown unveiled the restored version of the statue in 1995 on the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York on the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima.
And the production as a whole, "Flags of Our Fathers" together with "Letters From Iwo Jima, " speaks more eloquently still -- of epic folly and shared tragedy, of purblind imperatives and dire necessity.
That sculpture, designed by Felix de Weldon, was patterned after a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press image of the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising by Marines and a Navy Corpsman on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.
Though primarily a helicopter carrier, at least one Iwo Jima-class ship was qualified to operate the American version of the Sea Harrier, according to the 1982 edition of Combat Fleets of the World.
Here, the famous image of five American Marines raising a flag at Iwo Jima following a terrible 35-day conflict that killed sixty-eight hundred of our troops was modified to depict the Marines planting a tree.
"Every trade magazine you pick up, you see more and more of the same ads: The Departed, The Queen, Iwo Jima, " says John Levy, executive producer of Best Picture winners Platoon and The Last Emperor.
It was a flame that crossed the Pacific, landing upon beach upon beach, climbing Iwo Jima, it was a flame that landed at Normandy, it was a flame that shone brightly December 1944 at Bastogne.
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There can be little doubt there were gay soldiers who fought for American independence, who consecrated the ground at Gettysburg, who manned the trenches along the Western Front, who stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima.
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More than a half-century ago, Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, took the now-famous shot of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the flag at Iwo Jima in February of 1945.
He has always spoken of his relationship with school-friend Jimmy Trimble as the love of his life a love, moreover, that has remained untarnished in the writer's memory, as Trimble was killed on Iwo Jima in March 1945.
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