"...witnessed scenes of incredible carnage..."
In this case, I suppose he means Japanese carnage, as opposed to all the other carnage that was wreaked upon soldiers and civilians alike under Japanese domination.
Even Ellen Degenerate will orally satisfy this guy at the next Oscars.
Japanese soldier survivor from Iwo jima? Not bloody likely. Sounds like BULL FEATHERS to me.
I'm having a hard time believing this.
All the Marines I talked to who were on Iwo never mentioned a Japanese flying on Suribachi at this period. You would think a Marine or sailor somewhere at sometime would have mentioned this Japanese flag raising, at least in passing.
I have serious doubts about this.....
NOTE:
There has been remarks that the info from this book has already found its way onto the Japanese version of Wikipedia--I have not seen that myself. However, once a story is in print, it assumes more importance, etc.
I would be surprised if this info did NOT find its way, one way or another, into the lore of the flag raising, just as did the story of Rosenthal's pic being "posed" (not so, of course) but was later shown to have been only a misunderstanding as to which picture Rosenthal had been speaking of when he was later quoted on this. He had in fact been referring to his so-called "Gung Ho Shot," which had been somewhat posed. That "posed" story still goes around in some quarters among some not so well versed in all the ins-and-outs of the many faceted flag story.