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War Movie Scene: Marines Landing & First Battle from Letters From Iwo Jima

War Movie Scene: Marines Landing & First Battle from Letters From Iwo Jima

First Battle Scene

Here is the first battle scene from the movie Letters From Iwo Jima
Long-buried missives from the island reveal the stories of the Japanese troops who fought and died there during World War II. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic champion; and Shimizu (Ryô Kase), an idealistic soldier. Though Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Ken Watanabe) knows he and his men have virtually no chance of survival, he uses his extraordinary military skills to hold off American troops as long as possible

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