The American land and water sudden, unwanted entry into a place of Iwo Jima, a key island in the Bonin chain roughly 575 miles from the Japanese coast, was started by the desire for a place where B-29 bombers damaged over Japan could land without returning all the way to the Marines , and for a base for escort fighters that would help in the bombing series of actions to reach a goal. Iwo Jima was defended by roughly 23,000 Japanese army and navy troops, and it was attacked by three marine divisions after describe in detail preparatory air and naval huge attack sixty-eight hundred tons of bombs, twenty-two thousand shells. The fight was marked by changes in Japanese defense strategies troops no longer defended at the beach line but rather focused
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Jumpin Joe Rooms led his 3rd Military unit large number, 25th Marines, across the first terrace on the right side of the landing beaches, he met interlocking bands of automatic weapons fire unlike anything he had faced in Tulagi or Saipan. 'You could've held up a cigarette and lit it on the stuff going by, he recalled. I knew immediately we were in for one hell of a time. The Fight of Iwo Jima represented to the Americans the peak of forcible entry from the sea. This Particular land and water attack was the final/very best storm landing, the Japanese phrase describing the American natural tendency for focusing one's effort increasing mainly studying very big very strong force at the point of attack. The huge striking force was more experienced, better armed and more powerfully supported than any other offensive series of actions to reach a goal to date in the Pacific War. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance Fifth Fleet enjoyed total rule of air and sea around the small, sulfuric island, and the 74,000 Marines in the landing force would gather a healthy 3 to 1 majority over the fort. Grabbing and taking control of Iwo Jima Would be tough, planners admitted, but the operation should be over in a week, maybe
Jumpin Joe Rooms led his 3rd Military unit large number, 25th Marines, across the first terrace on the right side of the landing beaches, he met interlocking bands of automatic weapons fire unlike anything he had faced in Tulagi or Saipan. 'You could've held up a cigarette and lit it on the stuff going by, he recalled. I knew immediately we were in for one hell of a time. The Fight of Iwo Jima represented to the Americans the peak of forcible entry from the sea. This Particular land and water attack was the final/very best storm landing, the Japanese phrase describing the American natural tendency for focusing one's effort increasing mainly studying very big very strong force at the point of attack. The huge striking force was more experienced, better armed and more powerfully supported than any other offensive series of actions to reach a goal to date in the Pacific War. Vice Admiral Raymond A. Spruance Fifth Fleet enjoyed total rule of air and sea around the small, sulfuric island, and the 74,000 Marines in the landing force would gather a healthy 3 to 1 majority over the fort. Grabbing and taking control of Iwo Jima Would be tough, planners admitted, but the operation should be over in a week, maybe