As my father, Staff Sergeant James Nugent, watched (while under fire on the beach), six Marines stormed up Mount Suribachi on the embattled Japanese island of Iwo Jima, and raised the American flag.
Some ask why it took six Marines to raise one flag. It was a combat mission up a mountain that was still full of enemy Japs, so they did not take along (or even have) a flagpole. They found a a heavy piece of lead pipe on the mountaintop, and this somewhat heavy object was what they raised, not a light piece of wood.
Plus they all deserved credit for making this ascent under fire and to be in the picture. The battle for Iwo Jima would rage on for six more weeks, and three of the Marines who raised this flag would die there, as did 6,000 other Marines.
One was the great Italian-American gunnery sergeant and Medal of Honor winner John Basilone, who had insisted on returning to the front after getting his medal at the battle of Guadalcanal, wishing to rejoin his men. He is depicted here, and this exemplary hero was also awarded the Navy Cross, posthumously.
“What the hell is that? Oh, my buddy’s head.”
“Don’t freak out, Marine. Don’t dwell on it. Keep shooting. Stay on the attack!”
Huge Marine memorial in Virginia:
The battle commander was also of German blood: Harry Schmidt.
In awarding the Navy Cross to Lieutenant General Schmidt, the president wrote:
“Against determined enemy resistance and incomparable natural defenses, Major General Schmidt skillfully directed the attack of his troops to capture and occupy this strategic island. He handled the various units under his command with brilliant tactical skill. His sound judgment, distinctive administrative ability and unfailing devotion to duty were vital factors in the success of the entire operation.”
A key officer under Schmidt was Colonel Walter Wensinger of Ohio, who also received the Navy Cross.
Two of the flag-raisers at Iwo, Corporals Schultz and Keller, were also of German ancestry.
Many Roosevelt-haters refused to serve in the US Army and be sent to Europe to kill the Germans.
Instead, they joined the Marines to cross the Pacific and kill “the Japs.”
White American conservatives were sincerely outraged that the Japanese had surprise-attacked us at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,700 — and had committed many verified atrocities against the Chinese — confirmed by Third Reich diplomats located in China — and also against white prisoners — UK, US and Australian.
My father felt great hatred for them for mutilating and torturing captured Marines. Also, when our corpsmen (medics) would tend to their wounded, they would pull out a grenade and kill the American corpsman trying to save their life!
Eyes gouged out, testicles cut off and stuffed in the Marine’s mouth — BEFORE killing him. This was the State Shinto ideology which then had Japan in its grip. It is said they slaughtered also 100,000 Filipino civilians, and forced many women in the nations they had invaded into prostitution.
This article in Wikipedia was quite surprising: two of the six Marines were misidentified, and both men originally NOT listed were of German blood. Hmm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima
What Iwo Jima demonstrated was two things:
- With iron discipline, rigorous training and high morale, Whites can beat any other race. The Japs were tough, brave, skilled, well-trained, patriotic and, on Iwo Jima, fighting on their own Japanese soil. But we still beat them, losing 6K to their 20K.
- German-Americans are a vital part of the power and intelligence of this country. 🙂
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……See also
Ivory Hecker, FOX reporter in Texas who was fired to saying the truth about hydroxychloroquinem, which is cheap, safe and effective against Covid.
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Eyesight-measuring machines my ophthalmologist uses that are made by German-Americans, Bausch and Lomb, and Reichert.
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Lucia Bremer, brilliant Virginia high school girl shot by a negro totally for being white.
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German-American named Voll who lost her baby two weeks after trustingly getting the vaccine. Germans are way too trusting of authority!
Ditto: “Passed away unexpectedly” — but expected by the jews who cooked up this killer vaxx!
Clark Gable, star of “Gone with the Wind”
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Karen Dunst played “Spiderman’s ” loyal girlfriend
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What happens when 52 million German-Americans decide they have had enough?!
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My favorite German-American 🙂
— 17 October 2021 300 euros from M in France
Have you read “Infamy” by John Toland?
No, but I met Toland, famous for his Hitler bio, at a IHR conference in the late 1980s.
I hope the book Infamy shows that Roosevelt provoked the Japanese attack for months.
It was his back door to the war he really wanted, the one to destroy Japan’s ally, national socialist Germany (and then, with it gone, the British Empire, and then the whole West).
The gooks kinda deserved Hiroshima and Nagasaki for torturing American soldiers.
It’s a whole egoic world.
.one damn horrible thing after another for millennia…
Another excellent book on the attempt to avert the Pacific War was the book Saving Australia: Curtin’s Peace Plan with Japan, by Bob Wurth.
Prime Minister Curtin of Australia was working hard on a peace deal with Japan with the Japanese top diplomat to Australia, but, sadly, he was unaware that the American government was determined to have a war.
Interesting.
Sadly, I could not find that book online anywhere. Hmmm…
It states that the Dutch military attaché in Borneo gave the Japanese attack plans to the American military attaché six months before Pearl Harbour.
Why do you think the modern ships were 300 miles out on the open sea on that day?
Valhal should read Hellstorm and tell me what the Allies deserve.
“What happens when 52 million German Americans decide they have had enough?”
Ha ! Don’t make me laugh. The late Bradley Smith of CODOH (Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust) sent out a fundraiser to 2000 German American groups and associations asking for donations and received none. Not even one cent. Smith was a Korean War veteran and had the courage of his convictions to speak in public. All German Americans had to do was send money to help. They wouldn’t even do that!
http://www.codoh.com