met with people like charlie chaplin, mary pickford, celebrities. he was popular. he ended up in iwo jima. he was popular in the united states. a lot of the old guard, the japanese army, looked down their nose at that and figured this might be a good place for him to end his career, but he would walk around and inspect the defensive work being done with his riding crop in one hand and his calvary boots he was wearing. a colorful gentleman. let's take a harder look, then, at iwo jima itself. ok. the geography of the place. it is a volcanic island. it looks very much like a pork chop. it is 8.11 square miles. the name of the island is iwo jima because that is essentially, in japanese, sulfur island. that is what it smelled like. the volcanic sand that you had there. one author that i read described iwo jima as a cinder clog. so a tiny piece of land. the mountain, which we all know about, but dormant volcano -- a dormant volcano 554 feet. that was the elevation. from there, you can see the entire island and probably the entire u.s. fleet east of the island itself. the