To the shores of Iwo Jima 1945

An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized 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 welledited (by Warner Bros. ) effort.