Date created (January 20th, 2012) by the demon. Hosted only @ liveleak. All footage from the Battle of Iwo Jima, colourized. I'm a bit of a WW2 fan. Here lately i've been making my own. Sometimes i stop uploading current events and go on a WW2 rampage. No worries mods. I'll snap out of it eventually!

But i must say, i've been looking forward to finishing this and getting it uploaded, it seems to be one of my better creations. Enjoy liveleakers, this is for you guys.

I strung it along in sequence. From the bombardments, to crossing the waters, to the landings themselves and finally the famous posting of the US flag in real time on top of Mount Surbachi.

Soundtrack "Requiem for a Dream". Duration (4:08)

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The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February–26 March 1945), or Operation Detachment, was a major battle in which the United States fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Empire of Japan. The U.S. invasion, charged with the mission of capturing the three airfields on Iwo Jima,[2] resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the Pacific Campaign of World War II.

The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a vast network of bunkers, hidden artillery, and 18 km (11 mi) of underground tunnels.[3][4] The Americans were covered by extensive naval and air support, capable of delivering an enormous amount of firepower onto the Japanese positions.

The battle was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands, and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously. Iwo Jima was also the only U.S. Marine battle where the American overall casualties exceeded the Japanese,[5] although Japanese combat deaths numbered 3 times that of Americans. Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner.[1] The rest were killed or missing and assumed dead.[1] Despite heavy fighting and casualties on both sides, Japanese defeat was assured from the start. The Americans possessed an overwhelming superiority in arms and numbers; this, coupled with the impossibility of Japanese retreat or reinforcement, ensured that there was no plausible scenario in which the U.S. could have lost the battle.[6]

The battle was immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the U.S. flag on top of the 166 m (545 ft) Mount Suribachi by five Marines and one Navy Corpsman. The photograph records the second flag-raising on the mountain, which took place on the fifth day of the 35-day battle. The picture became the iconic image of the battle and has been heavily reproduced.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima