Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima from Clint Eastwood's two movies "Letters from Iwo Jima" and "Flags of our Fathers".

A combination of both views together.

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[jbeall500]

Thanks for posting this. My dad was a 20 year old Marine who survived Iwo and is still alive today at 87. He refused to tell me anything about it. One time when I real pressed him, it was the only tme in my life I saw him begin to cry. So, I backed off and never aksed him about it again. What an unbelievable time. I will never miss voting as long as live and have to take my hat off to all the brave soldiers that fought so we can have out freedom.

[Thisisreality434]

@jbeall500 Respect to your father. I salute him and thank him for her services for our country.

[dadikkedude]

isn't this from flags of our fathers?

[Thisisreality434]

@dadikkedude Yes sir! and also it's sister movie, letters from iwo jima. It's basically both sides.. the japanese and the americans (flags of our fathers).

[tubby140793]

when in war you should not hate the soldiers on the battlefield for they are just like you. Sad, scared, and want nothing more then to see their families back home. We are all men, we are all brothers, just under a different uniform.

[Thisisreality434]

@tubby140793 Well said.

[misterfrappichino]

Nice head bre

[YVONNETEO22]

@navyseals997 you watch the pacific rite? well killing alot of enemies does not make you an excellent soldier, and besides, we can not be sure of how many he actually killed.

[zachwood1218]

@lucius1976 Iwo Jima's purpose was the airfields. With those airfields, crippled B-29's could land their. When Paul Tibbets, took off to drop the Atomic-bomb at Hiroshima, Iwo Jima served as a back base if Tibbets B-29 was hurt, he could land at Iwo, and they would lower the A-bomb into a hole at the end of the airfield, and another B-29 would proceed to Hiroshima, that was one reason for invading Iwo Jima.

[ammar51467]

i like this video

[hubomba]

@hubomba The Japanese's only mission was to take as many casualties as they could with them rather than actually holding the island (hence they let the beach fill up). It was a suicide mission for all of the defenders. Alot of the other movies I watch makes it out to be a legitimate effort to hold the island, but they knew it was impossible and that the US had too much.

[hubomba]

This is pretty much one of the only accurate movie accounts of this battle.

[lucius1976]

Invasion of Iwo Jima was pretty useless in retrospect. The island was not necessary as air or naval base. Much simpler would have been to bypass it and starve it.

[Umedark]

@jbeall500 my grandfather was in the Canadian 3rd Division, he faced beachheads in Normandy almost as strong as Iwo Jima. When i asked him about it he looked at me and started to tear up and said he hopes I will never have to go through what he did.

[FRforcing]

07:40

gone...

[WarFreak1st]

I like it when 2 stories meet and connect together, like half life 2 and portal.