By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Bio: Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes is chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust.
