Battle of Iwo Jima

[FRforcing]

This is the only one battle where I wished Japanese victory because they were better in theory...they just needed more man and it was first battle on the real japanese teritory

[dorklord777]

what is the last song?

[stupidCIAagent]

i would never hate on a person who was sent to a meat grinder against their will and even after that they fought like men and gave their lives or returned homes as heroes any one who is sent to war against his/her will is a hero

[anteracmacash]

in average, every 2 minutes 3 marines lost their lives on that island...rest in peace brave wariors of the pacific

[Dancing88Mike]

God I hate this song. Its so fucking depressing.

[Albanianhustler]

@Dancing88Mike the song fits very well with the illustrated theme, i mean u wouldnt wanna have teletubbies playing while showing casualties of war in vietnam for example.

[lautarodosmil]

yankee go home!!!

[smelltheaironcemore]

Great video. May i ask what music you used?

[Ghostsniper27]

Why are you all talking about Iraq and Afganistan? its really irrelevant to the comments on Iwo Jima

[MrGetbackjack007]

wait how did u get that vid because it is kinda rude geting this vid of surviving soldiers u need to remove it pls plz!!

[halkidian79]

All the american soldiers back to their home ... no more war! Freedom to Palestine ... no more humalition of the Palistinian nation! Leave out Afganistan, Iraq!

[gonad123]

A: What does Palestine have to do with Iraq and Afghanistan?

B: How are we humiliating Palestine? They are causing themselves humiliation by attacking Israel and getting their asses kicked every time.

[halkidian79]

many millions of dollars from US to support Israel. In the war of 7 days the american airforce support the israeli attack!

In yr last state u have a point ... but the things is more complicate than this! Nobody in this area want sincere peace ... the show will go on!

[bryson55]

What is with the British airplane at 4:17?

[TheSV3]

@bryson55 That's a rocket-firing Beaufighter. I don't know if it was flown off of a British carrier or not but British carriers had armored flight decks and were kamikaze proof when they assisted in operations with the US fleet.

[ledari]

like all of mens in these pictures have died. in war, or after that.

R.I.P

[reecemim]

nwm11bravo ur right kids only care about whats on tv or on their phone they dont understand this stuff they dont care about this stuff or how many lives were lost that day but the people how still do god bless u kids or teenagers are to busy smoking and drinking they wont watch this in a million years

[reecemim]

god blees those men they did was was told but with many loses i wish i was out their backing them up it was a tragic day for many

[onechordshortofasong]

What a gret video......God Bless the Marines(and others)

[sergioBRE]

epic

respect to all fallen soldiers from both sides who died for their country and faught with honor.

[kong8765]

I must say that for an AP history project it was VERY well done.

[Halftrac]

Please remember that May 25th 2009 is Memorial Day. Go out and attend a Memorial Day Parade in your town or city.

Show our veterans that you care and thank them for your freedom.

[duckduckyIII]

unless of course you don't get that day off ( i did'nt get it off) which really sucks

[capnhands]

goddamn copyright crap. Whiney ass babies, "Waaaahh, they are listening to our song without our permission. "

[MyTrialOne]

I appealed the copyright issue and now the audio is now available. Enjoy! :)

[capnhands]

@MyTrialOne yes, thanx

[JesusJChrist]

Did you PASS??!?!?!!?!?

[onizukadesu]

i hate american...

[Elchupucabra]

Good for you. Japan still lost , BANZAI!

[sirchristian12]

I am American. I respect all the soldiers who fought. I know you hate Americans but I don't hate you.

[daboodeef179]

@sirchristian12 and that's what separates you from them.

[sirchristian12]

@daboodeef179 and that is a good thing right?

[daboodeef179]

@sirchristian12 yes.

[TheWarApfel]

@sirchristian12 who hate americans and why?

[capnhands]

Oh please don't hate us. Please like us, please be our friend.

[capnhands]

To all the countries who denounce or actions against the terrorists, I am curious if the next day your country along with thousands of innocent people where attacked and killed. Would you take up arms against those who attacked you or cower and give in to those who attacked you.

[attela666]

Whwt's the point? This isn't a video about terrorists!

[wakabaw]

US never learn their mistakes. Still fighting to this day.

[SDFFDGSSDFGSDGFDGSFD]

how was fighting in WWII a mistake? lol so ur saying us fighting in WWII was a mistake?

[wakabaw]

The wars killing civilians are mistakes. Japan and Germany learned. But US???

[britishpeoplesuck]

lol wow, u dont no ANYTHING about history. This war started because of the iron curtain. Moron.

[wakabaw]

which war?? US has been having so many wars so i don't know which one ur talking about? lol

[YogaNate79]

There's nothing wrong with wars. I rather enjoy seeing the ragheads in the Middle East get slaughtered by the wrath of the triggerr happy American...

[attela666]

"I rather enjoy seeing the ragheads in the Middle East get slaughtered by the wrath of the triggerr happy American..."

ecause you are from US, of course. That's very stupid.

[attela666]

*Because

[viketaker]

the japanese massacring millions, and so were the germans. you all should be grateful the us and the soviets defeated them. the world would be a different place if we had not. and not for the better...

[wakabaw]

But US killed millions too. How many more times US had wars and killed civillians since WWII? Ur just a hypocrit.

[kitten1me2]

how can you fight with 30 prisoners taggin along, the allies had no will and surrendured so easily,you cant blitzcreig or banzai charge with 30 will hearted prisoners

thats why they killed the allies pow's

[viketaker]

im talking about the genocide they commited in china korea and other places before the united states started fighting, and the germans killing millions of jewish people...

[halkidian79]

This is real ... historical correct. I can t speak about genocide but they were the nazi of East! They slave large area of China, korea ... In Korea their bordels with Korean for soldiers. No hate now! I m worry about US army now! in the past until the end of WWII was an liberating army ... in vietnam, in Irak, in Yogoslavia, in Afganistan, what?

[viketaker]

vietnam was a proxy war between the US and the soviets. the soviets were absorbing countries in all of eastern europe. they were trying to be the next nazi germany after ww2. we were stopping communism spreading in southeast asia. that explains vietnam. as for yugoslavia, they were ethnic cleansing albanians. afganistan was to get ahold of bin laden who murdered thousands of americans on 9/11. i cannot condone our actions in iraq though...

[halkidian79]

the thing are more complicated. Vietnam was french colony, when vietnamians released independence, french could get over it. For the fear of communism, wlile the move was from cummounists, they called for help US. US didn t like a communist goverment. US subterfuged troops, that this war would be an easy case ... the fact is that they liked to have control over countries. Yugoslavia is more complicated. They needed then a separate country than a strong unite country. See military base in Bosnia!

[halkidian79]

in vietman i see was a proxy war! But when u saw that this war would never get a victory ... why continued for so many years? U made terrible crimes! It was a strange war! About Yugoslavia ... it just was that u wanted to have the control fo area! Albanian make also cleanings in Serbian's villages ... nobody stopped them! It is was just U.S profit ... remember this! The same in Iraq and Afganistan! Believe the real terrorists now is U.S. goverment ... sorry but that's the truth!

[irisheyes4u2]

Shut your ignorant piehole you inbred Greek piece of shit. Just because your candyass little coward country does not have the balls to fight, do not talk about the US. If it wasnt for the US, you cowards would be slaves today. Fuck off.

[halkidian79]

6.000.000 Greeks fought and won 50.000.000 Italians ... dont tell us about war, honors, and fights! U WERE liberation army .... no u r an imberialistic power ... fuck off bloody americans ... stay home and try on yr capitalisms ... noone needs u anymore with such way ... leave in peace Afganistan, Iraq ... don t mess up with Palestine ... fuck off sons of Kissinger and ...baum! Dont mess up the whole world ...FUCK OFF NOW!

[irisheyes4u2]

I know it is difficult for you being the living abortion of a street walking whore like most Greek cowards. Your shit little country comes crying to the US like a little bitch girl when you morons need help. If you would take your lips off your dad's dick, you would see that you inbred Greek candyass.

[halkidian79]

lol ... irish bitch!

[willypete2171]

I agree. I think the US should pull out of Afghanistan now. I dont want to see anymore of my Marine brothers killed over there. Let the Taliban come back in power so they can keep women uneducated and kill people for no reason. Maybe the Greeks can help A-stan?

[halkidian79]

bullshits ... US fuck Afganistan for their own profits! Shut the fuck up and wake up at last! They sent ur brother to die (and i m sure that these guys die, thinking that they serve the common good and justice) and some assholes like Cheney make money and do politics! Such a pitty that u support men like him and Bush G. for sending u there and die for them and their companies! Wake people ... politicians (especially in US) make money from the wars... they liberate their profits and slave nations

[willypete2171]

Politics is politics, is always been the same old dirty business and unfortunately we all seem to keep repeating history instead of learning from it. and this goes for all countires, races, and creeds... I never supported Bush, I supported my friends. We all joined and served for our own reasons, but I can assure you none of us served to help Bush. My 5 years in the Marines(90-95) were the best and worst times of my life and I have no regrets.

[Lumotaku]

Halkidan? Cheney is retired. Remember this little incident that happened that happened in New york Oh i don't know its called 911. The guy that did that was being harbored by the taliban in afganistan. Thats what we are doing over there thank you. And um slave nations what are you talking about?????

[halkidian79]

put out the dick from ur head and put it again between the legs .... hey osama was trained from american agents .... yeah in thermopylae was the japaneses that the ancient greeks kick off ... I knew it sucker!

[AC130EMPYREAL]

Use some proper grammar dumb shit.

[Lumotaku]

lol and you get raped by turkey.

[halkidian79]

the food u eat in thanksgiven day!!!

No problem with anyone! anytime and anyone! Try us bitch!

[Lumotaku]

Hey halki what started this anyway this is about iwo jima was iwo jima where Greeks fought the japanese or the japanese invade greece?

[ringibingoringo]

Remember the battle of Thermopylae

[halkidian79]

remember balkan war (we fought against ottomman empire for second time, balkan war I, we fought against Bulgarians, balkan war 2), WWI (against bulgarian), minor asia at 1922, we ve gone 100km from Ankara, WWII (1940 against Italians and germans) ... remember many! Glory Greek Army ,,, nevertheless .... no fight with Japan fasicts!

US army was glorious Army in WWII ... respect ... it was a liberation army ... but things change ... u fight now for the companies of Cheney ... what a shame!

[Lumotaku]

the battle of thermopylae where the japanese invaded Greece and the spartans kicked thier ass? No i don't remember that.

[TheSV3]

@Lumotaku I don't either. It was the Persians against the Greeks and their allies at Thermopylae, not the Japanese. I doubt that Japan was known until Marco Polo returned from the Orient.

[wintersnoob]

@halkidian79 what numbers are those you retard?

[Miyagi900]

don't forget TAIWAN,INDIA and many other southeast asia.you think they aren't asian?it's discrimination.

im worry about china and korea army now.

they are ultra nationalist.

[halkidian79]

i don t know maybe they are ... but do not forget yr past ... u were ultranationalist ... i don t know now! I hope nobody do nothing ... enough with wars and shits!

[Elchupucabra]

Survival rates for POWs in German hands were MUCH higher than anybody unfortunate to be captured by the Japanese. The Pacific War was considered more vicious for that reason , no mercy for the merciless.

[shaji20]

Actually, The Russians participated in a great many manslaughters, the Americans killed a few innocents as well. No one's hands were clean in that war.

[MembThePenguinII]

@viketaker

So did the Allies (and the Soviets)

[Matta2704]

@viketaker nazis, not germans. fool

[XXXpallisterXXX]

@viketaker Oh shit, i forgot the USSR wasn't ran by a mass murdering scum bag that was worse than Hitler. Yeah, i thank the Soviet Union for enslaving Eastern Europe aswell.

[snocamo154]

My father fought on Iwo Jima. He was a Marine Sargeant. He lost many friends the day of the landing whom he grieved for for decades.

Dad survived two grenade attacks and was temporarily blinded. When he was blinded, he was told he was going to be sent to Japan once his sight returned. Truman changed those plans with two nuclear bombs. Thank God for Truman. We need more men like him in office.

[ppattles]

my grandfather was in the first wave onto iwo jima too, he died before I was born but he said the same thing about truman

[gilbecl]

redfield -- mine too

[Redfield20554]

my grandfather invaded iwo jima

[maximuscaligula]

One of my neighbors was there. He said it was brutal.What music is this from? It sounds familiar.

[homievader]

I thought it ended the 27th of March. Or did I look at a bad source?

[siochanleat82]

I don't care much for politicians or war mongers but I do think we owe a great deal to the ordinary men from all walks of life who stood up when fascism and militarism threatened the freedom of half the world. We have the freedom to live our lives the way we do today because they paid the price for us. I for one salute every damn one of them. Thank you, I pray we'll never know the hell you visited to keep us free, but thank you.

[AndyMitchell765]

guess why

[aznmafia11894]

tttttthhhhheeerrrrrreeeeeeeeee nooooooooooo coollllor

[Rharmc]

NWM11Bravo!!! Thats what the US has done for 50 years, "We will not fight back", look what it has cost us. We aren't fighting any country anymore, we are fighting "terrorists", they have no country, no borders, they kill at will all over the world. 11Bravo is Infantry, maybe you need to re-think your thoughts or are you wishing to be infantry. The United States is sick of the useless and senseless murder of our citizens, here and abroad. Thank GOD for GW Bush.

[attela666]

"Thank GOD for GW Bush. "

Thank the devil for Bush, you mean.

[capnhands]

Yeah Bin Laden is an angel and Saddam is a kind and generous guy and Hitler was a Rabbi.

[attela666]

No, of course.

[capnhands]

like the Brigate Rosse? you'd fight?

[capnhands]

you would bring the fight to them wherever they are being armed and trained or wait till they strike again?

[sfd1905]

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!"

-Winston Churchhill

[NWM11Bravo]

People need to realize that we can end war.

WE can end it if everybody realizes that we are all one human being.

We are being tricked by our leaders to kill each other....no soldier in the trenches wants to kill people...many just want family and peace.

but we let our selfs get tricked into attacking one another...that creates the hate and desire for revenge.

We are one...nobody has to fight.

Everybody could just say...NO I WILL NOT.

what are the leaders going to do about it?

cry like babys?

[Dogmeat7]

NWM11 bravo YOU CAN'T END WARS. WW1 the War to end all wars was the nick name of it. an ppl belived it. then WW2 came. as said in the Art of war when in Peace Prepare for war. we are humans have emotion called hate. your in a dream an wars will always go on it's what the Human race know's best.

[cheanator]

what a dumb ass...nwm11bravo...look back at history...you think leaders tricked everyone who has fought in every war...stupid

[rathdeort2008]

Freedom costs and those brave men paid the price for us.

We salute you and honour you. We will never forget you or the hell you endured for us.

RIP the brave.

[NWM11Bravo]

Sadly alot of people I grew up with have no idea...They simply have no clue about this.

if is wasnt for movies ...hardly any body would know about all of this.

It sucks because rap or rock stars have

become the heroes of today for this generation.

They get payed recognition,respect and MONEY they (in my opinion) do not deserve.

This latest generation of kids are forgetting this.The only thing that matters to them are who's on TV or in their ipods

[Geigenzimmer]

yeah and I hope also the japanese who died there!

[megakoko123]

R.I.P japanese and american soldiers

[zeldaruleswii2]

god bless those USA soldiers killed that day

[attela666]

God (or Kami) bless all the soldiers.

[Wollemand]

What is that British Beaufighter with invasion markings doing there? 4:23 ????

[Nationsnotregimes]

Japan was Provoked into a War of Self Defense

Synopsis of Arguments by Lawyers for the Defense

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

By C. W. Porter

[NWM11Bravo]

politics is a man made illusion. Any war that comes as a result of it is also an illusion.

an illusion we are made to think is real and important. ITS BULLSHIT

fuck the tribunal..fuck the lawyers...you gonna let yourself get blowen to peaces because of some stupid policy created by a group of corrupt assholes in order form them to control your life...literally in control of your life..They only have to say its war time...and you will die in combat..mental and physical wise.

ITS BULLSHIT.

[Nationsnotregimes]

What is it when a peple do not fight for their Blood and Soil?

Charles A. Lindbergh  Speech Sept. 11, 1941

[Supergungun]

No, an era like WW2 will NEVER arise again. Any sense of honor or nobility is long gone. Nations lack the nobility of conventional warfare. In fact the last conventional war was the Korean War. Now no one has the bravery to fight face to face anymore! At least the Nazis and Japs fought face to face on the battlefield. Nowadays we deal with men with no sense of honor like the "Vietcong" or"Taliban".

[mbtfp]

100% agreed!

[kewlboy567]

They say the generation of WWII was the bravest. I believe they are no diffrent then any other generation they just anwsered the call. As we would today. I think if something arised like this again we would see the same things happening again, with the same valor.

[Ferien7]

I am very appreciative of the bravery these men had. It takes more than guts to walk into a life and death situation like Iwo Jima. It takes more than guts to keep on fighting when you see the men to your left and right die. Truly, just as it was explained so long ago, for the men on iwo jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

[aclassen5]

look at these faces..... many of them didnt make it back

[coyotefever105]

Wow! Very emotional and powerful! Excellent job of honoring our fallen soldiers! I hope you receive an A+!

[LBrittis1]

can u please tell me the music playing??? im doing a music project..please

[attela666]

What a terrible battle! Marines and japaneses fought with bravery.

[SteelCityResident]

My great uncle Pvt. Harvey V. Stute was killed at the age of 19 on Iwo Jima two week after the raising of the flag. He was part of a three man mortar crew and a japanese artillery shell killed him instantly. He was in the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines, Fifth Marine Division.

[BobbyMcfee2]

can u send this to my emial i want that audio!!!! newscast!?!

[vergy4eyed]

where did you get the person talking in the beggining of the video? pls. reply, cause we are doing the same topic for our project.

[MyTrialOne]

The recordings were from a live radio broadcast directly from the battle. I found maybe 5 somewhat connected audio clips about it. I think that all together, the clips were about 2 hours long. I had to shift through them all and cut out little clips to make the reporter's words coherent, concise, and fit the pictures being displayed. (They had some random news too from other parts of the war.) Sorry, but I don't have the links any more (I used Google though). :( Good luck with your project!

[vergy4eyed]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :) this will help us make it to district or even state. THANK YOU!! :) we put you in our acknowledgements. ;)

[abidrules123]

did u know my great granps died in iwo jima. Sgt. henry john

[zwack9]

god bless the soldiers that fought in the bloody battle

[cjscool55]

listen here. both japs and us fought very hard. we just fought better. and we both had limited amo. but the good part is that it is all over and hitler is dead, and we droped the atom bomb on there butts.

[guyo74]

22000 japanese with no air support and limited ammo. Both were heroes, but the japs fought very hard right to the end.

[NathanTheWis3One]

the japanese are the real heros of these battle

[zoso820]

Tell that to the dead marines.

[hurk31]

Ive seen Iwo Jima before from ship....incredible to actualy see the place..mt Suribachi still has shell scarrs all over it

[gotchocolatemilk25]

What music is playing?!!?? its amazing

[wernox87]

Semper Fi

[AMERICALOVESHER0ES]

Finally, a video of great, American heroes with the "appropriate" music. Thanks!

[dagreatdesil]

The fact is that more than 26,000 Marines lost their lives on Iwo Jima, not 6,821. Thats incorrect. know the facts.

[ntlr]

Know the facts - A casualty is not a death.

Casualty - loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, !! wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion !!

As i said before

Of the 26,000 casualties, there were 6,800 deaths.

Get your shit straight

[Haflor]

hey, if u like WWII documentaries and interviews with veterans check out some of the videos I have.

[PadawanOsswe]

if anyone wants to see the two Mt. Suribachi flags, go to the National Museum of The Marine Corps at Quantico,Virginia.

its a brand new museum and absolutly beutiful!

[ntlr]

Had it not been for Joe Resenthal and his famous photograph, the well known monument of Iwo Jima would have never been built. None of those soldiers would have earned any more regocnition than that of an average serviceman. Instead, the men who were actually responsible for the capture of Suribachi remain unknown to most Americans.

[wernox87]

Marines, not soldiers....we claim the title of United States Marines.

[lachlan665]

The famous picture of the American flag going up on Mt. Suribachi was only the second flag to be put up. The first one was taken down because it was to small and so that the commander could send it back to Washington.

[thisisgonnasuck]

sorry ntlr youwere right i looked it up right after you said that..... i just used my sence that i heard from someone who i guess knew nothing lol

[thisisgonnasuck]

ntlr i hate to say but there wasn't 22083 japanese there was somewhere in 1200 of them i hate to burst your research

[hurk31]

how do you figure that??...there were over 21 thousand defenders,..look it up.

[decasgr]

and how many attackers?

[hurk31]

much more than the defenders, but the Japanese had the advantage, being dug into bunkers, I was actually responding to a person who claimed there were only 1200 Japanese, while there were over 21000

[decasgr]

thanks for answer. however i disagree about he advantage because Japanese had reduced supplies and many leaks!

anyway, respect to both sides who fought heroically!

[hurk31]

yes no doubt the Americans held an advantage in men and supplies

to both sides respect for heroic fighting..seeing the island myself back in 04, still gives goosebumps as to what went on there.

[decasgr]

i only had the chance to see iwo on documentaries and i agree that both sides fought heroically. Both sides have my respect, however i think that the Japanese were better warriors spiritually!

[hurk31]

i wouldn't say they were, if anything attacking a foreign island with no real idea of where the enemy is dug in requires more courage than sitting in a cave waiting to commit suicide does.

[decasgr]

sitting in the cave?

what about this? fighting from a cave,with limited supplies, knowing that they wont return home cause they are surrounded by an enemy who is advanced in every way (personnel, ammo, support)

[hurk31]

yes..hiding behind well prepared positions they had months to prep..and what of 18 year old Marines jumping into japanese machine gun and mortar fire who would never go home?..if you think since the Japanese were out-numbered and trapped that they were more "spiritual" that is rather naive.both sides risked just as much, it is a fallacy to assume either ones more "spiritual"..I still stand by my opinion that the attackers where more brave.

[decasgr]

first of all i said that both sides have my respect. You say "hiding" but i guess you know the difference of hiding/covering specially under a bombing and hey relax. i am not trying to change your opinion :)

[hurk31]

haha I am relaxed, sorry for the tone there. Believe me both have my respect too, but as a Marine myself, its just nature for me to support my forefathers. I can only imagine what that must have been like for all involved, and on a side note I got to train a little with Japanese troops, and can say that they are very good men, and am glad Japan is our ally now. peace.

[decasgr]

i was in army too (national service) but never went so far! we disagreed below but i agree with peace. hopefuly this kind of disaster will never happen again!

[willypete2171]

I agree. I am a former Marine myself (90-95) and was stationed at Camp Hansen, and then Fuji. We also trained with the JSDF & they are good soldiers. We had a difficult time fighting against an enemy we couldn't see and literally knew the island inside and out. We had no cover and Iwo's volcanic ash was difficult to walk in and dig.

[thisisgonnasuck]

if you look past the reply chain you'd see that i was wrong and that i said the right amount just a wee bit further down

[joelrjn]

nice movie!

[GDHouston]

5 star rating!!!

[s2xk89]

gamerhelmet, u say u know the ppl who raised the flag over Surabachi...yet all of them are dead.

[gamerhelmet]

The people in the flag raising, I know them.

[cryincold]

terrible

[SWAT518]

it was good, but in the text, u refer to it as "D-day", although iwo jima WAS as d-day, when u simply refer to it as "d-day", most ppl would assume u are refering to the invasion of normandy france

[kilitutu]

I read somewhere that US lost about 25000 Marines, no?

[ntlr]

American:

6,140 killed

17,913 wounded

Japanese:

21,000 killed

1,083 captured

[snakebagel2]

March 26, 1945, after 31-day battle that pitted some 100,000 U.S. troops against 21,200 Japanese. Some 6,821 Americans were killed; only 1,033 Japanese survived. - Washington post dot com

[Nagare747]

Nice work! I hoped that you got an A for your project ~

[Bomberguy]

Great job! Thanks for sharing.

[Calibwai]

Beautiful music, really gave me the chills, God bless all the men who gave the ultimate sacrifice, whichever side, for what they believed was something righteous enough to give there lives.....

[capnhands]

6821 U.S soldiers and 22000 japanese.

Horrible.

[texastwostep]

wage war, expect to die.

[nissan92]

The battle of mount Suribachi was one of the bloodiest in the pacific campaign.