A nightmare in hell.

[**The following is in regards to the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.**] >The gray dawn illuminated the night’s destruction. To the experienced correspondent Robert Sherrod, who thought he had seen all the worst that the Pacific campaign had to offer, it revealed nothing less than “a nightmare in hell.” His dispatch continued: “About the beach in the morning lay the dead… They died with the greatest possible violence. Nowhere in the Pacific have I seen such badly mangled bodies. Many were cut squarely in half. Legs and arms lay fifty feet away from any body.” ________________________ **Source:** Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. “D-Day Plus One.” *Flags of Our Fathers*. Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006. 172. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Robert Lee Sherrod](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sherrod) [Battle of Iwo Jima / Operation Detachment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima)