Not really out of context from what I read in the wikipedia page. Had they known they were facing 11,000 they would have waited for back-up, I'd say.

i download but only skiped parts and i can see this show has low production values when you use the old beaten to death lettuce sound effect for body being torn apart...specially on a explosion....

I think iron mike meant that not all 11,000 Marines on the island were involved in the battle.

Rgr that. Also, there were more than 900 Japanese soldiers and Marines on the island at that time too.
And you can not question their bravery, only their leadership.

finally watched, and is it me, or was there a scene with a beheaded head witha penis on his mouth ?? !
O_o

Sadly there was.

And why is using that sound effect "low production value"? I don't know how a body being torn apart sounds, nor does 99.99999% of the people watching the show. I also couldn't care less about how that sounds in real life, or if it's not 100% authentic in the show.

I mean, it's not *real* death screams we hear, so every death cry is obviously "low production value", because they didn't gut-shoot some poor extra for the authentic sound. When you have to nitpick at that level to find a fault it just becomes silly, IMHO.

i was joking becouse it was really cheesy, its the kind of think you'd expect to hear in a horror movie.
never heard anyone being exploded either but i doubt you can hear the muscle dismantle over the explosion, and from what i experienced once on the road, bodies being torn apart dont sound like that at all, ever dislocated a bone with that low thump sound ? sorta like that. (poor horsy)

Newsreels of liberated POWs in German camps did not show the signs of starvation seen in survivors of Japanese camps.

What may be interpreted as racism could be the resolve shown as a result of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and the fact that aside from the West Coast there were not many Japanese in this country compared to the number of Germans and Italians throughout the U.S. who had established themselves as loyal American citizens, men like John Basilone being one of them.

The hatred for our enemies was mainly concentrated on Hitler as far as Germany was concerned whereas with Japan it seemed to involved the entire country.

Just finished reading "With the The Old Breed", Eugene Sledges Autobiography of his Pacific years. According to him that happened and he saw it.