In this chaos, casualties mounted quickly and calls for “Corpsman!” were ever-present. Although the initial landings did not face heavy counterattack, once the beaches were full of men, vehicles and equipment the island’s defenders unleased the full fury of artillery, mortar and rockets.

It was not long before the beaches were clogged with the invading force. What was called “sand” was in fact volcanic ash that one corpsman later likened to walking in a “bin of buckwheat.” Directly behind the beach the wind and waves shaped this soft terrain into a 15-foot terrace that slowed the progress of vehicles and men into the fight.

forces had encountered in previous campaigns.

You could just feel those shells going over your head.” “As we were coming into the beach we were under a rolling barrage of 16-inch guns of the battleships. Embedded within these units were corpsmen like Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Stanley Dabrowski, of New Britain, Conn., who remembered the “tremendous noise,” concussion of small arms fire, explosions of artillery and sounds of shells. This is not your ordinary game or graphic novel, BH 2020 is a highly immersive, time-continuous multifaceted virtual reality experience that blends the best of both worlds and brings about an entire new dimension of interactive entertainment.At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, the first assault waves from the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions hit the beaches of Iwo Jima.

The Enemy is at the gates and there’s no time to waste, we eitherįight-back or we slip-back into the dark-ages and start all over again. Get ready to hop back into your gunner seat as the next iteration of the Beachhead series returns with a vengeance in Beachhead 2020.

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