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themselves into the mountions of Iwo Jima. After days of bombardment by American planes prior to the invasion, the Japanese had suffered few casualties, quite the opposite of what many military officials leading the invasion beleved

I read about Iwo Jima. It was really disgusting and sort of scary. It talked about how each Japanese soldier was expected to kill 10 American soldiers before he died. It also explained that the famous flag-raising photo wasn't exactly correct. That was actually the second flag raised, as the first one was smaller, and was taken down and brought home by somebody. It also explained how the Japenese had dug

The last chapter that I read was about the atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It really wasn't my favorite chapter because it didn't provide much combat stories, not that it could. I found out that the people in japan that where walking around just instantly vaporized in the blast. Turns out that the temperature of the explosion was 4x hotter than the surface of the sun.

I just finished reading the chapter "Stalin's female FLacons" It was about how in Russia, during the height of the Nazi attacks, the Russians got women to fly their planes. Many Russians belived that times where not so desperate to put women in planes. It was astounding to learn how these people flew planes with so few instruments on board. Most planes even lacked a fuel gage!!!!

did not make it, they would go to eachothers families and take care of them. Violet was then moved to an execution camp, where she was shot 3 months before the war ended in Germany. Marie kept her promise, and in the 50's went to Violet's family.

As he ran into the woods, she provided cover fire, eventually being aprehended by the Nazis. The commander of the team saluted her as "being one of the boldest women he had ever seen." She was then taken to prison, where she was very popular among the inmates. She was moved from prison to prison, and made on very special fiend, Marie Lecomte. They promised eachother that if one of them

insisted on bringing along in the car, British STEN sub-machine guns. Since there was no reason for a French antique dealer to be carrying Brithish sub-machine guns, if the car was stopped, they would have to fight. The car was stopped and both of them fled, shooting at the Nazis. Eventually, Violet gave up and told the male occupant of the car to save himself.

British to fight the Nazis in revenge of her husband. Her name was Violet Sazbo. In the chapter, her car was stopped in a Nazi road blockade. Violet was in the car with another undercover British officer man. They had both agreed to tell any Nazi that stoped them that Violet was an antique dealer, and was visiting one of her shops in the south of France. For some reason, Violet had

It looks like i'm moving backwards in the book, but i'm actually just reading diffrent stories within the book. When I first started the book, I skipped through parts that I didn't think where going to be any good, but I just read this chapter and it was great. It was called "Death of a salesgirl", and it was about an English woman that worked undercover in occupied France. She joined the

This book is really intense. Every chapter is a new story of someone in the war, so it keeps you interested and fresh. So far, the chapters that I liked the most where the first and the last one that I just read. The first chapter was about the hunt for the Bismark, and about soldiers on the English ships and the German ships. The last chapter that I just read was about the war in