Blackfork
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I read Flags of our Fathers and saw Eastwood's movie. Last week I picked up a copy of Iwo Jima, Portrait of a Battle, by Eric Hammel. 2006. It's full of unpublished photos from the USMC archives and National Archives plus maps and story. Lots of photos of Marines and M1 Carbines, Garands, BARs and flamethrowers in action.
Both of them worth the price. The Hammel book has even MORE photos taken during the flag raisings on Suribatchi. The Eastwood film runs the credits at the end with many photos, some of which I had never seen, including a terrific head-on photo of a USMC Corsair in flight.
Makes me want to learn a little more about Japanese rifles. There was one at the last Tyler gun show with the mum ground off but nobody knew anything about it. My neighbor brought home cases of rifles from the Pacific war but gradually gave them all away.
When I was a kid in elementary school I read Marine at War by Russell Davis who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa. I still have the crumbling paperback upstairs on the shelf.
Glad to see these stories told. Iwo anniversary in February.
Both of them worth the price. The Hammel book has even MORE photos taken during the flag raisings on Suribatchi. The Eastwood film runs the credits at the end with many photos, some of which I had never seen, including a terrific head-on photo of a USMC Corsair in flight.
Makes me want to learn a little more about Japanese rifles. There was one at the last Tyler gun show with the mum ground off but nobody knew anything about it. My neighbor brought home cases of rifles from the Pacific war but gradually gave them all away.
When I was a kid in elementary school I read Marine at War by Russell Davis who fought at Peleliu and Okinawa. I still have the crumbling paperback upstairs on the shelf.
Glad to see these stories told. Iwo anniversary in February.