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Unique among Pacific War Marine battles, total American casualties exceeded those of the Japanese, with a ratio of three American casualties for every two Japanese. [9] Of the 21,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner, some of whom were captured only because they had been knocked ...
The US declared Iwo Jima secure on 26 March 1945, after suffering 26,039 casualties. Only 1,083 of the 22,786 Japanese defenders survived to be captured. A small number of holdouts continued to remain at large, leaving their fortified caves at night in order to steal food from the American garrison.
The American invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was charged with capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima. The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with vast bunkers, hidden artillery, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) of tunnels.
By February 1945, a total of 21,000 Japanese troops were deployed on Iwo Jima. [181] The American operation ("Operation Detachment") to capture the island involved three Marine divisions of the V Amphibious Corps, a total of 70,647 troops, [183] under the command of Holland Smith. From mid-June 1944, Iwo Jima came under American air and naval ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 January 2025. One of the Japanese Volcano Islands This article is about the island in the Volcano Archipelago. For other uses, see Battle of Iwo Jima and Iwo Jima (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Iejima. Iōtō (Iwo Jima) Native name: 硫黄島 Photo of Iwo Jima (Iōtō), c. 2016, with Mount ...
US Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, on February 23, 1945, in what became one of the most iconic images of the Second ...
Since direct hits were very difficult on well-camouflaged bunkers, many survived and inflicted a huge casualty rate on the Marines. For the conquest of Iwo Jima, the Marine Corps assigned three divisions, a total of almost 70,000 troops, in stark contrast to the single division tasked with capturing Guadalcanal in August 1942. The conquest of ...
Ended in the American occupation of Iwo Jima aided by overwhelming military superiority, later used as an emergency landing base for American bombers; Resulted in most of the Japanese combatants being killed in action; Site of Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Battle of Okinawa: April 1, 1945 June 22, 1945 Okinawa ...