The Battle of Iwo Jima: D-Day February 19, 1945 [cover title] [but the contents are really about the Battle for Okinawa]

n.p., 1945. Very Good. Stiff black card cover with metal slide binder. 28 cm. The contents printed cheap paper consist of about 56 reports by American correspondents dated between April 1 and May 7 on the Allied invasion of Okinawa. A few of the reports on longer paper have been folded at the bottom to fit in this binder. Correspondents included Leslie Nichols, Don Pryor, Norman Paine, Bud Foster, Milton Chase, Jack Hooley, Tim Leimert, and Joe Hainline -- Don Pryor and Norman Paine probably had the most followed by Leslie Nichols and Bud Foster. One report seems to be repeated two or three times. One or two of the last reports are on the death of Ernie Pyle. The battle for Okinawa took 82 days before the Allied Forces secured control of the entire island (about 466 square miles) on June 22, 1945. This album appears to have been compiled by or for Joseph A. Eselunas (1914-1988) whose name appears on the front cover. Eselunas was an American sailor apparently serving aboard the U. S. S. El Dorado (AGC-11), the flagship for Vice Admiral Richmond K. Turner, Commander, Amphibious Forces, Pacific. The ship lay off Iwo Jima from February 19 to March 9, 1945 before heading to Guam and then going to Okinawa where it remained from April 1 to May 18. We do not know why these war correspondent reports were preserved in this notebook.