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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.
John Gould Fletcher

Born: January 3, 1886
Died: May 20, 1950 (aged 64)
Bio: John Gould Fletcher was an Imagist poet, author and authority on modern painting. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a socially prominent family.
Known for:
- Preludes and symphonies
- Breakers and granite (1921)
- Irradiations, Sand and Spray (1915)
- Arkansas (1947)
- Goblins and Pagodas (1916)