Letters From Iwo Jima / Flags Of Our Fathers (Commemorative Edition)

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5 Disc Commemorative Collector's Edition includes "Flags of Our Fathers" 2-Disc Special Edition; "Letters From Iwo Jima" 2-Disc Special Edition and bonus disc including "Heroes of Iwo Jima" (History Channel documentary hosted by Gene Hackman) and "To the Shores of Iwo Jima" (Academy Award nominated 1945 UA short). "Flags Of Our Fathers" - February 1945. Even as victory in Europe was finally within reach, the war in the Pacific raged on. One of the most crucial and bloodiest battles of the war was the struggle for the island of Iwo Jima, which culminated with what would become one of the most iconic images in history: five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi. The inspiring photo capturing that moment became a symbol of victory to a nation that had grown weary of war and made instant heroes of the six American soldiers at the base of the flag, some of whom would die soon after, never knowing that they had been immortalized. But the surviving flag raisers had no interest in being held up as symbols and did not consider themselves heroes; they wanted only to stay on the front with their brothers in arms who were fighting in some of their brothers in Easy Company. Bradley's father, John "Doc" Bradley, was one of the soldiers pictured raising the flag, although James never knew the full extent of his father's experiences until after the elder Bradley's death in 1994. "Letters From Iwo Jima" - Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that in all probability they will not come back.