the Marines needed something they could take with them as they advanced from Iwo Jima’s beaches and moved deeper into the island. For their purposes, the AN/M2 would need to be far more mobile ...

Sands of Iwo Jima This is a vast saga [by Harry Brown] of a marine platoon whose history is traced from its early combat training through its storming of Iwo Jima's beaches to the historic flag ...

Pfc. Duane Tunnyhill of Omaha was ready to die with his fellow Marines at Iwo Jima. He survived and lived another 80 years to become the last man ...

But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the ... all bound together by Wayne's larger-than-life performance, Sands of Iwo Jima is the quintessential WWII film.

"It's also the only monument in the world that has rocks from Mount Suribachi, under the Marines' feet, black sand from the beaches of Iwo Jima built into the base." Carrier is one of the monument ...