Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima by James Hallas
When the smoke cleared on Iwo Jima in March 1945, 19,000 American Marines had been wounded and 7,000 were dead, a casualty rate of nearly 39 percent. Lasting over a month, Iwo was the Marines' bloodiest battle of the war and the only Pacific battle in which a U.S. landing force suffered more casualties than it inflicted. It was also the most highly decorated single engagement in Marine Corps history. Focuses on the twenty-two Marines and five Navy personnel who received the Medal of Honor and the actions that earned the award Accounts of men at war showing gallantry under fire in one of the country's most storied engagements Recounts the entire Battle of Iwo Jima through its most dramatic moments
James H. Hallas is a graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and was in the newspaper business for nearly forty years as reporter, editor, and publisher. He is the author of Saipan: The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II, which won the 2020 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for Nonfiction; Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima: The Stories of the Medal of Honor Recipients in the Marine Corps' Bloodiest Battle of World War II; Killing Ground on Okinawa: The Battle for Sugar Loaf Hill; Doughboy War: The American Expeditionary Force in World War I; Squandered Victory: The Battle of St. Mihiel; and The Devil's Anvil: The Assault on Peleliu. He lives in Portland, Connecticut.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811739597 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811739597 |
| Title | Uncommon Valor on Iwo Jima |
| Author | James Hallas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stackpole Books |
| Year published | 2020-09-15 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
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