Battle of Iwo Jima Remembered: 70 Years Later

Mar 2, 2016 | 0 comments

Seventy years ago, on Feb. 19, 1945, at 0900 hours, 30,000 American troops, mostly U.S. Marines, stormed ashore on the island of Iwo Jima, beginning the historic battle that would last 36 days, ending with victory on March 26 and marking the first Japanese territory to be conquered during World War II.
An additional 40,000 troops later joined the bloody struggle against 22,000 Japanese soldiers, who remained concealed among an intricate network of tunnels and caves spanning the volcanic island 750 miles from the Japanese mainland. U.S. forces advanced as little as 50 yards a day in the early stages as …read more

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