Battle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Iwo Jima
Part of World War II, Pacific War
A U.S. 37 mm (1.5 in) gun fires against Japanese cave positions in the north face of Mount Suribachi
Date February 19 – March 26 , 1945 Location Iwo Jima, Japan Result Decisive U.S. victory
Fighting parties
United States	Empire of Japan
Commanders
Holland Smith Marc Mitscher	Tadamichi Kuribayashi  †
Strength
70,000	18,061–18,591
Casualties and losses
6,822 killed/missing 19,217 wounded	17,845–18,375 killed/missing 216 captured

The Battle of Iwo Jima was the American capture of island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The USA need to capture Iwo Jima to be able to capture Japan if they needed to. Many films were made about it for example "Flags of our fathers"