Joseph H. Alexander, World War II Commemorative Series, Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima (Washington, D.C.: Marine Corps Historical Center, 1994), p. 47 ...

John Wayne earned a 1949 Best Actor Academy Award nomination for one of his most iconic roles, as the battle-hardened leader of a squad of recruits, in Allan Dwan's SANDS OF IWO JIMA. Haunted by ...

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