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HomeBattle of Iwo Jima

Battle of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps and Navy landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

Lying roughly halfway between American Army Airforce bases in the Mariana Islands and the Japanese islands, the military base on Iwo Jima gave the Japanese an ability to send early air raid warnings to the Japanese mainland and launch fighters from its airfields to intercept raids.

The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field The strategic objectives were twofold: the first was to provide an emergency landing strip for battle-damaged B-29s unable to make it back to US air bases in the Marianas Tinian, Saipan, Guam. The second was to provide air fields for fighter escorts, long-range P-51s, to provide fighter coverage to the bombers.

The five-week battle saw some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the Pacific War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

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Battle of Iwo Jima 75 years ago

20 February 2020 Nick Devaux 0

On 19 February 2020, there were numerous observations observing the 75th anniversary of the battle for Iwo Jima island. Lawrence Kirby experienced a nightmare within a nightmare by surviving the assault on “Cushman’s pocket” named [Read more]

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Lawrence “Larry” Kirby

19 April 2018 Nick Devaux 0

LAWRENCE F KIRBY – USMC Plt Sgt, 1st Platoon, E Co, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division My search for a veteran of Iwo Jima led me to US Marine, Lawrence F Kirby: wounded [Read more]

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