Battle of Iwo Jima
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| Battle of Iwo Jima | |||||||
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| 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 |
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States |
 Empire of Japan |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Holland Smith Marc Mitscher |
Tadamichi Kuribayashi † | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 70,000 | 18,061–18,591[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 6,822 killed/missing[2] 19,217 wounded[1] |
17,845–18,375 killed/missing[1] 216 captured[1] |
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was the American capture of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The USA needed to capture Iwo Jima to be able to defeat Japan. Many films were made about it for example Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, both directed by Clint Eastwood.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Burrell 2006, p. 83. Burrell talks about how many historians have overestimated the number Japanese defenders, with 20,000 and even 25,000 listed. Burrell puts the range between 18,060 and 18,600, with exactly 216 of these taken prisoner. The rest were killed in action.
- ↑ Morison, Samuel Eliot (2002) [1960]. Victory in the Pacific, 1945. Volume 14 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-07065-8. OCLC 49784806.
