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  2nd Armored Amphibian Battalion

  Japanese Army

  109th Division (General Tadamichi Kuribayashi)

  2nd Mixed Brigade (Major General Sadasue Senda)

  309th Battalion (Captain Awatsu)

  310th Battalion (Major Iwatani)

  311th Battalion (Major Tatsumi)

  312th Battalion (Captain Osada)

  314th Battalion (Captain Hakuda)

  Engineer Battalion and Field Hospital

  145th Infantry Regiment (Colonel Masuo Ikeda)

  1st Battalion (Major Hara)

  2nd Battalion (Major Yasutake)

  3rd Battalion (Major Anso)

  Engineer Company and Field Hospital

  3rd Battalion, 17th Mixed Infantry Regiment (Major Tamachi Fujiwara)

  Brigade Artillery Group (Colonel Kaido)

  2nd Mixed Brigade’s Artillery battalion

  145th Infantry’s artillery battalion

  1st and 2nd Medium Mortar Battalions

  20th Independent Artillery Mortar Battalion

  8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Independent Anti-Tank Battalions

  20th, 21st, 43rd and 44th Machine Cannon Units

  Remnants of the 26th Tank Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Nishi)

  1st and 2nd Independent Machine-Gun Battalions

  Three Army Rocket Units

  Naval Forces on Iwo Jima (Rear Admiral Ichimaru)

  27th Air Flotilla and 2d Air Attack Force (Rear Admiral Ichimaru)

  Iwo Jima Naval Guard Force (Captain Inoue)

  125th, 132nd, 141st and 149th Naval Guard Force Anti-aircraft Batteries

  Naval Guard Force Coast Defense Batteries

  Southern Air Group Naval Guard Force troops (Captain Inoue)

  204th Naval Construction Battalion

  FURTHER READING

  Batley, Lieutenant Colonel Whitman S., Iwo Jima: Amphibious Epic (USMC, Historical Section, Division of Public Information, Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1954)

  Bradley, James and Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam, 2006)

  Garand, George W. and Truman R. Strobridge, History of US Marine Corps Operations in World War II, Vol IV: Western Pacific Operations, Part VI: Iwo Jima (Historical Division Headquarters, US Marine Corps, 1971)

  Hammel, Eric, Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Marines at War in the Pacific (Zenith Press, 2006)

  Haynes, Major General Fred and James A. Warren, The Lions of Iwo Jima (Holt Paperbacks, 2009)

  Kakehashi, Kumiko, So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War Based on General Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s Letters from Iwo Jima (Presidio Press, 2007)

  Newcomb, Richard F. and Harry Schmidt, Iwo Jima (Holt Paperbacks, 2002)

  Smith, Larry, Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific (Norton & Company, 2008)

  Wheller, Richard and Richard Wheeler, Iwo (US Naval Institute Press, 1994)

  Websites

  http://www.defense.gov/home/features/iwo_jima/index.html

  http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/PTO/Iwo/index.html

  http://www.marines.mil/news/publications/Pageswesternpacificoperationshistoryofusmarinecorpsoperationsinworldwariipt4.aspx

  http://www.iwojima.com/

  Films and Documentaries

  Glamour Gal (1945); a film about Marine artillery.

  To the Shores of Iwo Jima (1945); a documentary produced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

  Sands of Iwo Jima (1949); a film starring John Wayne.

  The Outsider (1961); Tony Curtis stars as Ira Hayes, one of the flag raisers.

  The World at War (1973); episode 23 of the BBC documentary covers the Iwo Jima campaign.

  Flags of Our Fathers (2006); a film directed by Clint Eastwood giving the American perspective, based on James Bradley’s and Ron Powers’ book of the same name.

  Letters from Iwo Jima (2006); originally titled Red Sun, Black Sand, this film gives the Japanese perspective.

  The Pacific (2010); part 8 of the HBO mini-series produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg includes a piece on Iwo Jima.

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