An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor film, produced by the U. S. Government Office of War Information, tells,. in vivid color, the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima,
A volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan and only 8 square miles in size, Iwo Jima was secured at the cost of 20,000 Japanese and nearly 7,000 American lives. The struggle, immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a giant U.S. flag atop 550 foot high Mt. Suribachi, cinematically captured here in this powerful film.
