Iwo Jima and Okinawa
-From these three bases Americans could fly and return with bombers to bomb Tokyo
-Men fought to the death and very few prisoners
-Kamakizis active
-Fire bombing of Tokyo after islands taken
-Invasion of Japan estimated to take 1 million American casualties.
-Men fought to the death and very few prisoners
-Kamakizis active
-Fire bombing of Tokyo after islands taken
-Invasion of Japan estimated to take 1 million American casualties.
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The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, along with its three airfields to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.