Battle of Iwo Jima

On February 19, 1945, as part of a strategy to beat down the island the Japanese Imperial army, the United States invaded Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was not initially targeted, but after the Philippines fell with ease, the United States takes a long time before the invasion of Okinawa.

Iwo Jima is located in the middle of the road between Japan and long-distance bomber bases the United States in the Mariana Islands. Japanese soldiers used Iwo Jima as an early warning station which broadcast radio signals warning the United States bomber attack that led to the main islands of Japan.

After Iwo Jima captured the United States, Japan lost its early warning system. United States then used Iwo Jima as a runway for an emergency landing bombers damaged, and had saved many American lives.

Iwo Jima is a volcanic island shaped like a trapezoid. Marines who landed on this island called pork chop gray. When invaded Iwo Jima, United States Marine soldiers were killed in large numbers because the island heavily guarded by the Japanese.

Iwo Jima scene is dominated by Mount Suribachi (166 m). Mount Suribachi is an inactive volcano located at the southern tip of the island. In geographical distribution of Japan, Iwo Jima was under the administration of Tokyo Prefecture.

This island is the first Japanese islands seized by the United States. For the Japanese, defend the island from the invasion of the United States as well as maintaining an honor.

Tactically, the top of Suribachi is the most important place on Iwo Jima. From the top of the strategic Suribachi, Japanese soldiers who defended Iwo Jima can be accurately fired artillery toward the American soldiers who landed on the beach.

The island was defended by Japanese soldiers who hid out in a series of bunkers and pillbox. Not infrequently after disabling a Marine soldier pillbox with a grenade or a flame thrower, a few minutes later a shot back to bark from the same hole.

Japanese infantryman can sneak out into the pillbox that is connected with a series of underground tunnels that complicated. United States Army efforts mainly focused to isolate and capture of Mount Suribachi, and this effort achieved four days after the battle began on February 23, 1945. Although Suribachi was taken, prolonged fighting is still going on, and Iwo Jima could not say "safe" until 31 days later, on March 26, 1945.

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