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海军陆战队最终还是在民心的审判庭上打赢了官司。曾在哈得孙河河谷当过独家报道记者的海军部长福莱斯特，已经强令海军和陆战队采取更友善的媒体政策。到1945年2月，他的努力已经结出了硕果。数十名战争通讯员从硫黄岛发回了报道，他们的文章在48小时之内就能传回本土。大批的头版报道保证了公众对这场战役的高关注度，也让他们更好地理解了敌人地下堡垒带来的前所未见的战术难题。“福将”阿诺德和一众其他陆军航空队将领公开强调了夺取硫黄岛对于支援B-29轰炸作战的绝对必要性。乔·罗森塔尔那张折钵山升旗的振奋人心的照片，其作用也堪比百万行新闻报道。
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麦克阿瑟的含沙射影总的来说是不公平的。攻取硫黄岛之战并没有什么战术选择的余地，而且栗林忠道的战斗准备十分卓越。麦克阿瑟纵有毋庸置疑的战场指挥天赋，却也从未遇到过硫黄岛这样的挑战，何况他也没想出什么别的办法。曾经在菲律宾给麦克阿瑟当过手下，后来又指挥了战争中最大规模地面作战的德怀特·D.艾森豪威尔将军，曾在1952年以当选总统的身份简短造访硫黄岛。当他走下飞机，举目四望，他对当年海军陆战队能在这座岛上登陆超过6万人感到震惊。把这座荒芜的小岛和“拥有大片开阔地的诺曼底”做了对比之后，艾森豪威尔说他很难想象在如此局促的地方会有如此规模的战役：“这令他很难理解。”[91]
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[1]Kakehashi and Murray, So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.18.
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[2]Sakai, Caidin, and Saito, Samurai!, p.235.
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[3]Kakehashi and Murray, So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.66.
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[4]Major Yoshitaka Horie, unpublished manuscript, “Iwo Jima,” John Toland Papers, Series 1: The Rising Sun, Box 6, p.78.
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[5]Major Yoshitaka Horie, unpublished manuscript, “Iwo Jima,” John Toland Papers, Series 1: The Rising Sun, Box 6, p.63.
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[6]Private Shuji Ishii quoted in Kakehashi, So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.66.
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[7]King and Ryan, A Tomb Called Iwo Jima, p.30.
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[8]Kakehashi and Murray, So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.68.
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[9]Letters quoted in Kakehashi and Murray, So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.93.
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[10]Major Yoshitaka Horie, unpublished manuscript, “Iwo Jima,” John Toland Papers, Series 1: Box 6, p.78.
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[11]Japanese soldier’s diary, entry dated February 18, 1945, in Dixon, Brawley, and Trefalt, eds.,Competing Voices from the Pacifc War, p.140.
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[12]Fields quoted in Alexander,Closing In, p.31.
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[13]Kakehashi and Murray,So Sad to Fall in Battle, p.39.
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[14]Tsuruji Akikuisa quoted in King and Ryan,A Tomb Called Iwo Jima, p.111.
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[15]Toshiharu Takahashi quoted in Kakehashi and Murray,So Sad to Fall in Battle, pp.101—2.
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[16]Bruce and Leonard,Crommelin’s Thunderbirds, p.30.
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[17]Buell,The Quiet Warrior, p.356.
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[18]“Air Combat Notes for Pilots,” Enclosure (C) of Action Report, Commander Task Force 58,Operations of February 10 to March 1, 1945, Serial 0045, pp.2—3.
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[19]Roy W.Bruce quoted in Bruce and Leonard,Crommelin’s Thunderbirds, p.35.
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[20]“Areological Summary for Action Report,” Enclosure (G) of Action Report, Commander Task Force 58, February 10 to March 1, 1945, Serial 0045.
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[21]J.Bryan III diary, February 16, 1945, Bryan,Aircraft Carrier, p.10.
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[22]McWhorter,The First Hellcat Ace, p.152.
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[23]Bruce and Leonard,Crommelin’s Thunderbirds, p.52.
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