By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace. The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military point of view, in the defeat of Japan.

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

Luck can be attributed to a well-conceived plan carried out by a well-trained and indoctrinated task group.

When you're in command, command.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.