John Wayne's Vietnam War film The Green Berets was backed by the government, portraying a very narrow view of the ...
He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags ... Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in movies and TV shows. He looks at the ...
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One of World War II's most famous and lasting images is the photograph of U.S. Marines raising a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Thousands of Americans died to gain control of this tiny island.
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 ... on the war. This is a vast saga ...
Nearing the end of World War II in February 1945, the U.S. military landed on Iwo Jima. Although the Imperial Japanese Army soldiers fought back while hiding in bunkers, dugouts and caves ...
Month after month, on islands like Tarawa, the Marshalls, the Marianas, Leyte, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa ... On the U.S. side, President Harry Truman and his war advisers hotly discussed casualty ...
For decades, this WWII vet never shared his story. He's telling it in a major way now. He's even getting help in telling it ...
After seeing how successful the weapon was during the invasion of Iwo Jima, there was even some talk of putting the Stinger into larger scale production and distributing them. But the war ended ...