Never in Doubt: Remembering Iowa Jima

Survivors of one of the fiercest battles of the war in the Pacific tell their dramatic stories in this collection of oral histories. Veterans from all the services - Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, Army, and Army Air Corps - are represented, everyone from infantrymen, machine gunners, and engineers to medics, airmen, and coxswains. Their vivid firsthand accounts of personal experiences explore the great variety of actions that made up the campaign to win Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Interviews with forty-five Iwo veterans were selected for this book, among them Angelo Bertelli, the 1943 Heisman Trophy winner, and Charles Lindberg, the last survivor of the first flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

Lynn Kessler, a native of Hartford, Connecticut, gained his first impressions of military life as a cadet at Howe Military School in Indiana. He earned bachelor's master's degrees from the University of Hartford and currently works for a business technologies firm in Windsor, Connecticut. His other works include Honor and Glory, a historical novel; Painting Realistic Military Figures (with Donald M. Winar); and articles for domestic and foreign magazines. Edmond B. Bart, a resident of Franconia, New Hampshire, is a Marine Corps Reserve aviator whose father fought with the 2d Marine Division in the Central Pacific. Both Kessler and Bart are associate life members of the Iwo Jima Survivors Association of Newington, Connecticut.