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It was the bloodiest battle in Sea Corps history, professing a third of most marines killed in World Warfare II. The relentless fighting with each other on Iwo Jima lasted for 36 times, but the majority of us only know the iconic photo of five troops bringing up the American flag on Support Surabachi. For Fred Haynes, a young captain in Combat Team 28, Surabachi was one marker in a ferocious blood-letting against an enemy of 22,000 warriors who have been dug into caves and tunnels. The stories advised here for the first time will appear too cruel, too heartbreaking, even too fantastic to be presumed. As one veteran remarked, "Every day we learned a fresh way to die." By the time Haynes's unit possessed broken through the key Japanese amount of resistance, 75 percent of the three assault battalions---the frontline fighters who recharged enemy positions---were vanished. Many of the exhausted survivors were shattered. In five weeks, Combat Team 28 possessed advanced 5,600 back yards, closed 2,088 caves, and lost 5,885 lives. The Lions of Iwo Jima helps answer the essential questions: who have been these men, how were they trained, and what makes up about their extraordinary performance in battle?
