Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., a leading historian of the American West, was the author of many award-winning books. He was a vice president and editor of American Heritage, the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association.
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'We had to take that island to speed the end of the war against Japan.' But the capture of Iwo Jima had come at great cost. Sixty-thousand marines had landed on the barren, volcanic island that was five miles long and two and half miles wide. For f... SEE MORE