“Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”

Seaborne Assault

• 2am on 19th of February1945 that firing started

• Nearly 110,000 Marines sailed on about 880 ships

• 30,000 Marines would be on shore by night fall, followed by 40,000 that night

• After the quick fall of the Philippians the Japanese had a lull to try and build up defenses

• They used their time to build tunnels system , bunkers, and other island defenses using Sulfur to mix concrete

• They also relied on they Kamikaze tactics make the US think twice about landing an assault on Japan

Japanese defenses

Death Toll • This was the only conflict that the casualty

rate (deaths and injured) was higher in US forces than in Japanese.

• UUS Casualty toll 25,851 of which 6,825 were deaths (nearly ¼ of all Marines killed in WWII died in this one Battle)

• TThe Japanese held to their Kamikaze tactics to rigidly that of the estimated 22,000 Japanese soldiers on the Iwo Jima only 216 survived.

• Ledged has it that Secretary of the Navy

James Foresttal wanted the flag as a souvenir

• COL Chandler Johnson spat and said “to heck with that it belongs to the battalion.”

7th Bond Tour

• This poster was plastered in about1.5 million work places.

• The tour raised $26.3 billion; toput in perspective the entire national budget for 1946 was $56 billion

Commemorative Stamps

• TThe first stamp came out only 5 after the picture was taken.

• TThe second stamp came out as a part of the

50th anniversary

Movies• “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949) The Outsider: The Story

of Ira Hayes” (1961)

“Flags of our fathers” (2006)

“Letters from . Iwo Jima” .

(2007) .

Memorial

Memorial• TThe sculptor

was Petty Officer Felix de Weldon.

• TThe average height of the each figure is about 32ft

Memorial

Other Resorces

• http://www.iwojima.com

• http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/battle_of_iow_jima

• Iwo Jima 1945: The Marines Raising the flag on mount Suribachi by Derrick Wright