US Marines Capture Iwo Jima

The island is bombarded for seventy days.

A ship firing small rockets at the island.

All those little white things are wakes of ships filled with Marines getting ready to land on the island.

A few Japanese have been taken prisoner. 12,500 Japanese had been killed on Iwo when this video was made.

A Marine inspects a Japanese weapon at one of the pillboxes that has been taken.

Filmed from inside a tank as it shoots at a Japanese soldier caught out in the open.

It then uses a flame-thrower.

“A victory in proportion to the cost will be won.”

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