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Battle of Iwo Jima Would First B-29S Land on Iwo Jima Goshen News - 02/19/2020 Copy Reduced to 47% from original to fit letter page Page : A10 A10 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2020 • GOSHEN NEWS CHRONOLOGY: PARTICIPANTS: United States and Japan • Feb. 19, 1945: Marines attack multiple landing COMMANDERS: zones on the southern section Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz (U.S. of the island and reach part of Navy), Gen. Holland “Howlin’ Airfield #1. Mad” Smith (U.S. Marine Corps), Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi (Japan) • Feb. 23: 28th Marines plant American flag STRENGTH: atop Mount Suribachi. United States (110,000 personnel, more than 26,000 total casualties, • Feb. 27: 6,821 killed), Japan (20,000 to Airfield #2 is taken. 22,000 personnel, all but approxi- mately 200 dead or missing) • March 3: Airfield #3 is cleared. SURVIVOR’S SON: • March 4: “The battle of Iwo Jima would First B-29s land on Iwo Jima. quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators • March 25: ¿JKWLQJIURPFDYHVDQGWXQQHOV The last pocket of Japanese resis- like the catacombs of the Colos tance is defeated. seum, and American gladiators aboveground, exposed on all sides, • April 18: using liquid gasoline to burn their Last Marines leave Iwo Jima. opponents out of their lethal hiding places. ³$OORIWKLVRQDQLVODQG¿YHDQGD SOUTH, THEN NORTH: half miles long and two miles wide. American forces started attack An area smaller than Doc Bradley’s ing Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, hometown of Antigo, but bearing 10 making landfall in different zones BATTLE OF IWO JIMA times the humanity. A car driving 60 WKDWZHUHLGHQWL¿HGE\FRORUV miles an hour could cover its length They moved southward to secure February 19, 1945 – March 26, 1945 LQ¿YHDQGDKDOIPLQXWHV)RUWKH Mount Suribachi, which provid The Battle of Iwo Jima was the first time United States forces directly attacked slogging, dying Marines, it would HGDKLJKJURXQGDGYDQWDJHIRU territory that was part of Japan during World War II. The objective was to capture take more than a month.” viewing the battle. Marines even the remote island and use its airfields to launch strikes on the Japanese main- tually moved north and captured – author James Bradley, referencing his land. The U.S. invasion, called Operation Detachment, began on Feb. 19, 1945, father, John Bradley, an Iwo Jima survi- WKUHHDLU¿HOGVWZRWKDWZHUH¿Q and lasted until March 26 – five weeks of some of the bloodiest and most in- vor, in the book “Flags of Our Fathers” ished and one under construction. tense fighting of the war across a small, desolate, volcanic island. BATTLE FACTS: • The name “Iwo Jima” means • Under Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kurib- • On March 25, 300 “Sulfur Island.” ayashi’s leadership, the Japanese Japanese mounted a • Iwo Jima is located about 760 mounted most of their defenses final banzai attack. miles from Tokyo, covers 8 square with attacks under the cover of The U.S. Marines miles and is 5 miles in length. darkness. withstood the charge and declared victory • The southwestern tip, Mount Su- • Battles raged the island’s north the next day. ribachi, was a dormant volcano and side for four weeks, with a Japa- much of the island was covered nese garrison occupying the moun- • Two Japanese sol- with volcanic ash and sand. tains and their caves. diers hid in caves and scavenged food and • Invading Marines struggled to • Marines spent weeks searching An aerial photo shows Mount Suribachi on the Iwo Jima island on Aug. 6, 2014. supplies until 1949 – ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images ) get off the beaches due to soft vol- for and killing or capturing Jap- almost four years after canic sand, suffering major casual- anese holdouts who refused to the end of the war. • West Virginia native Hershel ties from Japanese artillery. surrender and opted to fight. Woodrow “Woody” Williams is • Marines moved off the beaches • The Japanese had dug trenches • The U.S. government awarded the last surviving Medal of Honor at dusk to capture a key airfield and tunnels that they used to move 27 soldiers the Medal of Honor for recipient who served in the South despite a banzai charge by dozens around the island during fighting. their bravery during the battle. Pacific and fought at Iwo Jima. of Japanese soldiers. Sources: U.S. Marines, History.com, National World War II Museum “We are sorry indeed we could not have defended the island successfully. Now I, Kuribayashi, believe that the enemy will invade Japan proper from this island. … I am very sorry, EHFDXVH,FDQLPDJLQHWKHVFHQHVRIGLVDVWHULQRXUHPSLUH+RZHYHU,FRPIRUWP\VHOIDOLWWOHVHHLQJP\RI¿FHUVDQGPHQGLHZLWKRXWUHJUHWDIWHUVWUXJJOLQJLQWKLVLQFKE\LQFK EDWWOHDJDLQVWDQRYHUZKHOPLQJHQHP\ZLWKPDQ\WDQNVDQGEHLQJH[SRVHGWRLQGHVFULEDEOHERPEDUGPHQWV«,ZRXOGOLNHQRZWRDSRORJL]HWRP\VHQLRUDQGIHOORZRI¿FHUVIRU not being strong enough to stop the enemy invasion.” – Lt. Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi, commander of the Japanese forces at Iwo Jima, in his last radio transmission to Japanese military headquarters Layout design by Caroline Feightner and research by Dave Sutor, both of The Tribune-Democrat Advancing U.S. troops spot a Japanese machine gun nest ahead of them during the invasion on Iwo Jima, in February U.S. Marines of the Fourth Division shield themselves in abandoned Japanese trenches and bomb craters formed 1945. One of the men is establishing its location on the map, so they can forward the information to artillery or during U.S. invasion and amphibious landing at Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, in World War II. A battered Japanese ship mortar units to wipe out these positions. (AP Photo) is in the background at right. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal) Copyright (c)2020 Goshen News, Edition 02/19/2020 February 19, 2020 12:07 pm (GMT +5:00) Powered by TECNAVIA.
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