The winter of December 1941 settled heavily over Washington, London, Berlin, and Rome, but the cold did little to mute the shockwaves already rolling across the world. The United States had barely begun to process the devastation of Pearl Harbor—smoldering ships still leaked oil into Hawaiian waters, families were still being notified of loved ones …
1945 marked one of the most grueling and significant battles of World War II—the Battle of Iwo Jima. This small, volcanic island in the Pacific became the stage for a fierce and bloody confrontation between American and Japanese forces. As part of the U.S. strategy to capture strategic locations leading to Japan, Iwo Jima held …
