[Doctor Raoul]

The main plot line is that the nation was broke, and would have to sue for peace with the Japanese.

I've read a lot of military hiostory and I've NEVER come across that BS.

[Petronski]

I've read a lot of military history and I've NEVER come across that BS.

That's because, of course, it ain't so.

[COEXERJ145]

As a graduate student focusing on WWII, I can say I've never heard that either.

That part of the movie doesn't pass the smell test.

[Seniram US]

I'm in agreement with you. No mention of even thinking of suing for peace. While the Marines were clearing the island, which the Japanese spent decades fortifying, the U.S. was preparing for a full thrust in the Pacific, once Germany was defeated, bolstered by the progress with the A Bomb. Iwo Jima, still under arguments, was required to gain a base from which to strike Japan and to give disabled planes a place to land. The thought of inserting the issue of suing for peace seems to me to be nothing more than a Hollywood stunt.

[LS]

Me either. I sat up in my chair. I seem to recall one line where the guy said that if the flag-raisers didn't get $16 billion with the next bond drive that the Marines and GIs would literally "run out of ammo."