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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mugzinnys, post: 156071, member: 228&quot;]It was toward the end of the day at the flea market when I came across these item. While breezing through the pages of this old book I see the words Iwo Shima. What came to my mind was war documentaries and the battle of Iwo Shima&nbsp; and the South Pacific. At first I thought the date in the book was after the War. I think it was the the photos, a scene after the war, with these Vets back in New York. But when I looked up Iwo Shima up on the Internet the date coincides one of the most famous battle of WII.</p><p><br /></p><p>On February 19, 1945, American soldiers make their first strike on the Japanese Home Islands at Iwo Jima with the The American amphibious invasion of Iwo Jima during World War II stemmed from the need for a base near the Japanese coast. Following elaborate preparatory air and naval bombardment, three U.S. marine divisions landed on the island in February 1945. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, who fought from an elaborate network of caves, dugouts, tunnels and underground installations. Despite the difficulty of the conditions, the marines wiped out the defending forces after a month of fighting, and the battle earned a place in <u>American lore with the publication of a photograph showing the U.S. flag being raised in victory.</u></p><p><u><br /></u></p><p>Why would this soldier write this date, and was he a part of that invasion?[ATTACH=full]42227[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42228[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42227[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42228[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42229[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42230[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42231[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]42232[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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