Talk:Tadamichi Kuribayashi
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- The life of your father is just like a lamp before the wind.
- To his son Taro Kuribayashi.
- We are here to defend this island to the limit of our strength. We must devote ourselves to that task entirely. Each of your shots must kill many Americans. We cannot allow ourselves to be captured by the enemy. If our positions are overrun, we will take bombs and grenades and throw ourselves under the tanks to destroy them. We will infiltrate enemy's lines to exterminate him. No man must die until he has killed at least ten Americans. We will harass the enemy with guerilla actions until the last of us has perished. Long live the Emperor.
About Kuribayashi[edit]
- Of all of our adversaries in the Pacific, Kuribayashi was the most redoubtable.
- Holland Smith, commander of American forces in Battle of Iwo Jima. [1]