I would love to get a few bottles of that sand

my great grandfather crawled around on that island for 3 days straight because anyone who stood up got shot, he came back with a bayonet scar on his neck

Interesting. I enjoyed this. It helped my understand Iwo Jima more.

Semper Fi 👍🇺🇸

I would’ve loved to have seen the view of the whole island from where they raised the flag. All your buddies were standing there filming it, but you didn’t get a chance to go over there.

your not enduring a day of suffering......you are paying homage.....

Why do you want sand?

Island of death

Way too many people laughing and giggling and having a goid time, even talking too much, to think every where you walked sineone probably died. It would be to magnitude to take all that in. But new generations live for the moment and think everything is made for them, sad to see that behavior at a memorial site.

Going on a trip organized by the WW II museum to Pacific in late March. iwo Jima was on itenerary buy Japan cancelled visit to island due to fear of volcanic activity. So who know when any US citizen will be able to visit the island again.

Any residents living in there ?

Technically, the whole island is a volcano. Mt. Suribachi is thought to be a dormant vent of the entire volcano

Dont apologize but next time you could just use subtitles of what you were saying.

22,000 Japanese were hidden in that hill. And they had an open view of the American troops landing. Talk about being a sitting duck. It is terrifying to imagine myself in their shoes.

That's is unreal thx for showing this and how you get permission

how did you get there?

Hiking the mountain is a killer, did it 8 times. left my dog tags there in 2008. The island has risen over 56 feet since the war due to volcanic activity. The actual Landing beach is way up from the waterline, the existing waterline was underwater in 1945.

So sad that this amazingly talented KZfaqr has disappeared, 1 like = 1 respect

Great video. How were you able to get permission to visit there? I thought it was not possible because it’s still a Japanese island

"Supposedly"

I seen tons of videos from past visitors to Iwo Jima and i must admit i never seen someone show how loose the volcanic beach was to walk on. No way to dig foxholes or even run on that stuff. I wonder how the ground felt when trying to dig holes. Veterans would say it was hot not to deep down

Had USDAF 2 week TDY on IWO 1958 . So different todays the images as compared to 1958.. At the time still much damaged equipment to be found .Com wires like a spider web. Half sunk amphibious equipment off the invasion beach. surprised they allowed us unrestricted wandering around since there probably was still unexploded ordinance

Do you know _why_ that rock was 10 feet under the water 70 years ago, and is _well_ above the water line now? An inflating magma chamber. That island is inside a submerged caldera from a very large, past caldera-collapse eruption. The volcanic system there may be capable of a high-end VEI-6 eruption, or even larger -- up to, possibly (hopefully not), a Mount Mazama (Crater Lake) or Tambora-scale VEI-7 eruption. If such an eruption occurs, quite severe tsunamis could strike Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. It could conceivably be a "year without a summer"-sized eruption. That would be a far larger eruption than any in the lifetimes of everyone alive today. Historically fascinating, and geologically quite concerning.

Did you see the underground tunnels? Or the entrances to them?

You.....mind me asking why you filled bags of sand? Do they need visitors to carry sand around for them?

It’s unfortunate that access is restricted ‘cause a lot of that Island may not be there forever. The 40+ feet of volcanic uplift is a sign that something big could happen relatively soon. I think geologists give it a 1/3 chance of erupting by the end of the century (don’t quote me on that though). If or when it blows its top, it may very well end up being like Thira, or even worse, Kikai. If it explodes and we’re lucky it will be “smaller” than that, so like Krakatoa. Either way, it will kill more people than the battle itself, and you all know that that’s no mean feat.

If everyone comes and takes sand/seashells/etc from these places there will be none left. Shame you both took some and couldn't leave this sacred place as pristine as you found it.

My great grandfather who passed in 2003 fought in Iwo Jima as a paratrooper. When he came back home and brought 2 katanas and 2 rifles, his personal one and a Japanese Type 99 rifle. My grandma has them to this very day.

Mantappp...pulau penuh sejarah yg kelam dan seraammm

How long is that track? Looks like fun!!

Passed a bunch, nobody passed you! It looked very slow from the viewing tower, but fast from the video.

We have the sand her heheh back in 98

I went Iwo Jima as staff ride from Yokota AB in 2010. It meant a lot to me. My grandfather was a Japanese Army Field Artillery Captain defended this island while my wife’s uncle was US Marine private landed to take over the island. It was a big family war.

Japanese forces guys there were super nice when I visited there in 2006.

Just think, Lt Gen. Kuribayashi had those beaches sited well in advance of the Marine landings.... when the beaches were packed he opened up on them.... the terror!

Wow, you lucky dog. How did you swing a visit to Iwo?!?!

how can you gothere now?

Amazing footage! How much does something like this cost?

it looks smaller than i had imagined. must have been hell in the war

Where is the flag

Thanks for this video. The War Room just released a video on IJ and the mountain sounded beyond horrible. Really puts into perspective what those Marines went through. I can't imagine having to climb it while being washed with bullets. Then they had to sleep on the damned thing since they couldn't take it day 1. Horrifying.

lmao a memorial for us soldiers on a japanese island

Thanks for the sharing🙏

You’re probably stepping on/over bones. The whole island is a graveyard

Remind me "BF V"

Iwo Jima is one of two place I'd ever consider leaving America again to re-visit. Wake Island is the other.

why should there be war :)

Why did you and your chums feel you needed to rape iwo jima of some of its sand !!! What's the point in that !! How disrespectful to the men who fought and died there from both sides is that !! Just so you could say to your chums back in the States " oh wow man I got a bit of iwo jima man "..

I was TAD there for 5 weeks from Coast Guard AIRSTA Barbers Point in 1979. Came back with a nice collection of glass balls collected from the beaches. I still remember the sulfur smell that hit you when the C-130 opened the door. Within a very short time, you didn't smell it anymore. At that time there were 26 Coastguardsmen and about 60 on the Japanese Air Base. I wish I had a greater appreciation of history at the age of 20. Good memories. It looks like you were filming near the Japanese barracks. Did you make it to the former LORAN station? I'm curious if it is being used for anything. It was definitely a very surreal place.