[Chainmail]

*Sigh*. So you're in the mood to pick a fight, are you? All of our Marines and soldiers fought with courage, wherever they fought.

I'm saying that Iwo was unique because it was a hopeless death trap. The Japanese had worked for many months to make it as efficient as possible and those who survived the first weeks knew that they had to back into that mill and almost certainly get killed our mutilated to gain the next objective.

If you haven't understood my point so far, you never will.

[oh8eleven]

I'm saying that Iwo was unique because it was a hopeless death trap.
And Tarawa wasn't? Normandy?
My late FIL fought at the Battle of Hurtgen Forest ... which most Americans STILL have never heard of.
Fighting was so fierce a German officer described it as worse than fighting the Russians on the Eastern Front.
Iwo Jima, no matter a death trap or not, was not unique, nor was the bravery exhibited by those who fought there.