Iwo Jima Books and Bibliography

This is a bibliography of books about the battle of Iwo Jima. I have separated this list by divisions, regiments and other units for ease of research.

V Amphibious Corps
• Coral and Brass - General Holland M. Smith
• Pacific War Marine - Clyde Holloway - 2nd 155mm Howitzer Battalion
• The History of the Eighth Field Depot and Eighth Service Regiment, U.S. Marines, in World War II


4th Marine Division
• My War - PFC Dewey C Pickard - P Battery 4th 105mm Howitzer Battalion 14th Marines
• Life, the Hard Way: Up from Poverty Flat-Eugene Curnow- USS Sanborn Corpsman attached to 4th Mardiv


24th Marines 4th MarDiv
• A Virginia Marine on Iwo Jima-Robert K. Krick - I Co, 3rd Battalion 24th Marines
• The Last Lieutenant - John C. Shively - L Co, 3rd Battalion 24th Marines


25th Marines 4th MarDiv
• The Assault - Allen R. Matthews - HQ Co, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines
• Uncommon Survivor From Sand To Bronze - Ana M. Ward - B Co, 1st Battalion, 25th Marines
• The Road To Iwo Jima - Tom McGraham - C Co 1st Battalion, 25th Marines
• This Here is 'G' Company", FMF- John E Lane- G Co, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines


5th Marine Division
• Spearhead: The World War History of the Fifth Marine Division-Howard M. Conner
• Complete 5th Marine Division Unit Rosters: Compiled from January 1945 Muster Roll - Brent Spenser
• Iwo Assault on Hell - James F Christ - General 5th MarDiv History
• War Shots Norm Hatch & the US Marine Combat Cameramen of WWII - Charles Jones - HQ Battalion, 5th MarDiv
• Corky's Boy - Bert Clayton - HQ Battalion, 5th MarDiv
• Iwo Jima One Man Remembers - George Nations - 5th Tank Battalion, 5th MarDiv
• My Life As A Jarhead USMC 1941-1945 Ralph Walker Willis - 5th Pioneer, 5th MarDiv
• Every Island is Not A Paradise (Download) - Walter Muller - 5th Pioneer, 5th MarDiv
• The Return To Iwo Jima 1945-1985 - Lucian Caste - 5th Pioneer, 5th MarDiv
• Don't Let Me Die Dirty - Carlie Thrasher Downey - 31st Replacement Draft


26th Marines 5th MarDiv
• Indestructible - Jack H. Lucas - 1st Battalion, 26th Marines
• God Isn't Here - Richard E Overton (corpsman) HQ Co, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines
• The Quiet Hero: The Untold Medal of Honor Story of George E. Wahlen at the Battle for Iwo Jima Gary W. Toyn - F Co, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marines
• Iwo Jima The Battle The Men of F Co, The Memories - Rudolph T. Mueller - F Co 2nd Battalion 26th Marines
• Mustang A Combat Marine - Gerald P. Averill - Hq Co, 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines


27th Marines 5th MarDiv
• Red Blood, Black Sand - Chuck Tatum - HQ co. 1st Battalion 27th Marines
• Trust. Truth. Evil. An Interview with a US Marine - Bill Onstad - B Co, 1st Battalion 27th Marines
• A Marine Remembers Iwo Jima: Dog Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines - Alfred R. Stone
• We Were In The First Waves Of Steel Amtracs Who Landed on Iwo Jima- John Ryland Thurman-F Co 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines
• Battle Wounds of Iwo Jima- F Co, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines-Thomas M Brown, MD.
• Surgeon on Iwo: Up Front With the 27th Marines-James S. Vedder HQ CO, 3rd Battalion 27th Marines.


28th Marines 5th MarDiv
• The Lions Of Iwo Jima- MaGen Fred Haynes & James A Warren - H&S Co, 28th Marines
• From the Sands of Iwo Jima - William R. Henderson - H&S Co 28th Marines
• The First Battalion of the 28th Marines- Robert E Allen - 1st Battalion, 28th Marines
• Preparing for the Rain on Iwo Jima Isle- Marion Frank Walker - HQ Co, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines
• D-Plus Forever - Dave Davenport - D Co, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines
• Give Me 50 Marines Not Afraid to Die - John K Wells - E Co, 2nd Battalion 28th Marines
• From Hilltop to Mountaintop: The Life & Legacy of one Iwo Jima Flag Raiser - Ron Elliott - E co 2nd Battalion 28th Marines
• From Volcano to Gorge, Getting the Job done on Iwo Jima - Howard McLaughlin Jr Raymond C. Miller H co 2nd Batt. 28th Marines
• Rawhide "A Pretty Fair Gyrene" Robert C Perdzock - Weapons Co. 28th Marines
• Flags Of Our Fathers - James Bradley - 28th Marines


3rd Marine Division

9th Marines 3rd MarDiv
• Bud: A Young Man In A War - Fred E Wilbur - HQ Co, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines
• Chain of Thought - John B. Minnick - Weapons Co, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines
• Iwo Jima corpsman!: The bloodiest battle of the Marine Corps-Ray Crowder - 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd MarDiv
• Nightmare on Iwo - Patrick Caruso - K Co, 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines


21st Marines 3rd MarDiv
• God Shared My Foxhole - J Friedman - Weapons Co, 3rd Battalion, 21st Marines


12th Marines 3rd MarDiv
• Stories From The Pacific - Lawrence Kirby - HQ & Sv Battery, 12th Marines
• Through It All - John Farritor - C Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines


US Navy
• Life, the Hard Way: Up from Poverty Flat-Eugene Curnow- USS Sanborn Corpsman attached to 4th Mardiv
• Iwo Jima Recon: The U.S. Navy at War, February 17, 1945-Dick Camp
• Beachmaster at Iwo Jima-J. D Cooley
• The Pacific War and Battle of Iwo Jima: Recollections & ​Essays: by a Seabee Lieutenant by Ivan D. Thunde
• Hungry for Wood - Herb Rhodes
• Seabee Book, World War Two, BLACK HELL - Kenneth E. Bingham - 133rd Seabees
• A Life Disturbed - Merrel Clubb


US Army


Pictorials
• Iwo Jima: Portrait of a Battle: United States Marines at War in the Pacific-Eric Hammel
• Iwo Jima: Springboard to Final Victory - Raymond Henri
Japanese
• Fighting Spirit: The Memoirs of Major Yoshitaka Horie - Robert D. Eldridge
• A Tomb Called Iwo Jima-Daniel King

Histories
• Amphibious Epic
• Iwo Jima-Bill D. Ross
• IWO - Richard Wheeler
• Iwo Jima 1945 The Marines Raise the Flag on Mount Suribachi-Derrick Wright
• Iwo Jima - Richard F. Newcomb
• US Marines at Iwo Jima - by Five War Correspondents


Oral History Compilations
• Never in Doubt : Remembering Iwo Jima-Edmond B. Bart,
• Iwo Jima: World War II Veterans Remember the Greatest Battle of the Pacific-Larry Smith