Director: Clint Eastwood

Cast: Flags of Our Fathers: Ryan Phillippe; Letters from Iwo Jima: Ken Watanabe

Books About Iwo Jima

Flags of our Fathers, by James Bradley, with Ron Powers. Bantam, 2000.

Indestructible: The Unforgettable Story of a Marine Hero at Iwo Jima, by Jack Lucas, with D. K. Drum. Da Capo, 2006.

Iwo Jima: Monuments, Memories, and the American Hero, by Karal Ann Marling & John Wetenhall. Harvard UP, 1991.

Iwo Jima, by Richard Newcomb. Bantam, 1988, 1965.

Other Books about the War in the Pacific

Touched with Fire: The Land War in the South Pacific, by Eric Bergerud. Penguin, 1997.

The Pacific War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931--1945, by Saburo Ienaga. Pantheon, 1978.

The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, by Harry A. Gailey. Presidio, 1995.

Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan, by Richard Leckie. RH, 1962.

Mr. Michel's War--from Manila to Mukden: An American Navy Officer's War with Japanese, 1941--1945, by John J. A. Michel. Presidio, 1998.

History of United States Naval Operations in World War II., by Samuel Eliot Morison. Little, Brown, 1947-62.

The Eagle and the Rising Sun: The Japanese-American War, 1941--1943, Pearl Harbor through Guadalcanal, by Alan Schom. Norton, 2004.

Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat, by Patrick K. O'Donnell. Free Press, 2002.

Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign, 1941--1945, by Evan Thomas. S&S, 2006.

Combat Officer: A Memoir of War in the Pacific, by Charles H. Walker Ballantine, 2004.

A Special Valor: The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War, by Richard S. Wheeler. H&R, 1983.

Media

Crusade in the Pacific. Vol 5. DVD.

Great Battles of the Pacific. DVD.

Victory in the Pacific. DVD.

Wings Over the Pacific. VHS.

World War II: The Great War. Vol 5. VHS.

World War II: A Military & Social History. Part 3. DVD.

Miscellaneous
 

25 Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men in World War 11, by Ronald Drez. Hyperion, 2001.

Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military, by Robert B. Edgerton. Norton, 1997.

American Spartans: The U. S. Marines in Combat from Iwo Jima to Iraq, by James Warren. Free Press, 2005.

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