Название: Marines On Iwo Jima: A Pictorial Records
Автор: Eric Hammel
Издательство: US Marine Corps
Страниц: 32
Формат: PDF
Размер: 26 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: Английский
Год: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-890988-64-7
Volume 1: 310 Photos.
Even in as bloody and bluntly violent a war as Americans encountered in the Pacific, Iwo Jima, the ultimate expression
of death and mayhem, stands out. It was in a class by itself, a meatgrinder smashed by a blunt instrument at exceedingly high cost. Relying upon a purely attritional strategy of “defend and die,” Iwo’s Japanese commander oversaw the construction of thousands of concrete bunkers, pillboxes, blockhouses, and other fighting positions as well as multistory underground command centers and barracks, some as deep as seventy-five feet.
