Sunset on Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima was eight square miles of black volcanic ash, and its Japanese defenders had turned it into a fortress of tunnels, bunkers, and hidden guns. When the Marines came ashore in February 1945, they walked into one of the fiercest battles of the Second World War.

For thirty-six days they clawed forward yard by yard. By the end, nearly 7,000 Americans had given their lives and almost the entire Japanese garrison of 21,000 had fought to the death. Admiral Nimitz said of the men who took it that “uncommon valor was a common virtue.”

Here the flag-raising over Mount Suribachi is bathed in the light of a fading sun — not a battle cry but a remembrance, a tribute to the terrible price of that ground and to every man who never came home.

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