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: Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard is a British labour economist, currently working as programme director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.