“ Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”

1. “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”

3. Seaborne Assault • 2am on 19thof 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

4. Japanese defenses • 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

5. 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.

6. 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.”

7. 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

8. 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

9. Movies • “Sands of Iwo Jima” (1949) The Outsider: The Story of Ira Hayes” (1961) “Flags of our fathers” (2006)“Letters from . Iwo Jima” .(2007) .

10. Memorial

11. Memorial • TThe sculptor was Petty Officer Felix de Weldon. • TThe average height of the each figure is about 32ft

12. Memorial

13. 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