Just posting this as a remembrance of all the US troops who fought and many who died there. After reading Amphibious Epic I got the true idea of the hell the Marines went through to take that small island. There aren't many of these heroes left.
There is a line in a book about Iwo Jima from a US marine and it kinda explains the battle and it has always stuck with me. He said approximately “At first we we were pretty scared but then we got mad.”