According to Boyer, marines tried to secure Iwo Jima by savagely battling thousands of Japanese soldiers hidden in tunnels and behind concrete bunkers and pillboxes in areas labeled as the “Meat Grinder” and “Bloody Gorge”. Those fights cost nearly twenty-seven thousand marine casualties—and one-third of all the marines killed in the Pacific. Such numbers represented a massive or enormous amount of deaths of U.S. soldiers their lives. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt saw these numbers of his fellow county men and looked towards the atomic bomb as an alternative that will send Japan to surrender and end the slaughtering of U.S. soldiers during World War 2. Only after the atomic bomb was dropped did the Emperor of Japan take in to consideration
