Friday, April 18, 2008

Time Magazine's Iwo Jima Cover

Fourteen words:

"...Among the Americans who served on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue."

-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet
Communique No. 300
17 March 1945*



*CINCPACFLT Communique No. 300, World War II Command File, Operational Archives Branch, Naval Historical Center.