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Marines Landed on Iwo Jima Feb. 19, 1945 “Uncommon Valor Was a Common Virtue” -- Adm 7:50 PM r 94 min Monday - February 24, 2020 5:40 PM Base Movie Schedule AutoMatters & More The Gentlemen, The Last Full Measure, Going on safari at the San Your FREE Dolittle, Bad Boys For Life, Just Mercy, Diego Zoo & Safari Park. The Grudge. weekly paper See page 12 See page 13 Take one! Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard Army Air Force ARMED FORCES DISPATCHSan Diego Navy/Marine Corps Dispatch www.armedforcesdispatch.com 619.280.2985 FIFTY NINTH YEAR NO. 43 Serving active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and civil service employees THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2020 MARINES LANDED ON IWO JIMA FEB. 19, 1945 “UNCOMMON VALOR WAS A COMMON VIRTUE” -- ADM. CHESTER NIMITZ by David Vergun, was standing beside Rosenthal, 1949 “Sands of Iwo Jima,” star- DOD News captured the same moment on ring actors John Wayne and For- By February 1945, U.S. forces video. Genaust was killed nine rest Tucker, and two 2006 movies had island hopped across the days later. directed by Clint Eastwood: “Let- Pacific Ocean and were rap- ters from Iwo Jima” and “Flags of idly closing in on the Japanese The image of the flag raising Our Fathers.” mainland. was so powerful that it was fea- tured on a U.S. postage stamp, and The U.S. returned Iwo Jima to Before attacking Japan, war a large statue of the flag raising is Japanese control in 1968. Today, planners hoped to capture Iwo featured at the Marine Corps War the Japan Maritime, Ground and Jima, a tiny island in the West- Memorial in Arlington, Va. Air Self-Defense Forces main- ern Pacific that would put U.S. tain a presence on the island. bombers within a 750-mile strike Books were written and mov- range of Japan. ies made about the battle for Iwo Japan is now one of America’s Jima. Three of those films are the most important allies. The task for doing this fell to the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine divi- sions, the Army’s 147th Infantry Navy cruiser sails through Taiwan Regiment and the Navy’s 5th Strait days after Air Force flyover Fleet. by Caitlin Doornbos, Plans to capture Iwo Jima Stars and Stripes unfolded June 15, 1944, with YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan - The United States sailed a Army Air Forces and Navy guided-missile cruiser through the Taiwan Strait on Feb. 15, three bombardment of the island. This days after flying an Air Force tanker over the contentious area, of- continued until troops landed on ficials said. USS Chancellorsville’s transit through the 110-mile-wide the island Feb. 19, 1945, 75 years U.S. Marines raise the flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945. Photo by Joe Rosenthal, AP waterway that separates Taiwan from mainland China “demonstrates ago today. the U.S. commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” 7th Fleet were located on the slopes of needed to open the island’s three prisoner. The rest were listed as spokesman Lt. Joe Keiley told Stars and Stripes in an e-mail feb. Despite the heavy and sus- Mount Suribachi. The Japanese airfields. missing and presumed dead. 16. “The U.S. Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere tained bombardment of the is- directed artillery, small arms and international law allows,” he said. The transit follows an Air Force land, the Japanese had their own mortar fire from openings down- Over five weeks of fierce fight- Sporadic fighting continued mission on Feb. 12 that sent an MC-130J Commando II north to south defensive plans, which included ward on U.S. troops landing on ing, the Marines suffered more until the war ended on Aug. 15, along the airspace over the Taiwan Strait, while two B-52 Stratofor- about 11 miles of tunnels and the beaches and advancing inland than 25,000 casualties, including 1945. However, two Japanese tress bombers flew along Taiwan’s east coast, according to Pacific underground rooms for command with great difficulty on the slip- nearly 7,000 dead. The casualty holdouts hid in the island’s caves Air Forces spokeswoman Maj. Victoria Hight. The U.S. operations and control and other functions. pery, black volcanic sand. rate was so high that the Army’s and tunnels until they finally sur- were held after Chinese naval and air forces operated near Taiwan 147th Infantry Regiment landed rendered in 1949. twice this week. Beijing, which regards the island as its own, held a So, the bombardment by the The invasion fleet consisted a month later to help with mop- “combat-readiness patrol” with bombers, jet fighters, early warning Americans of Iwo Jima had of the three Marine divisions of ping-up operations. One of the most iconic im- aircraft, destroyers and frigates near Taiwan on Feb.9, according to relatively little effect on about about 70,000 men, around 450 ages of World War II was taken the Chinese Defense Ministry. The U.S. considers Taiwan’s status 21,000 Japanese troops holed up naval ships of various types, as The Japanese suffered even by photographer Joe Rosenthal. unsettled, but adheres to the “One China” policy, acknowledging that underground. well as several thousand Navy more devastating losses, with His photograph captured six Beijing considers Taiwan part of China. However, the Taiwan Rela- Seabees. The Seabees were na- around 18,000 killed. Despite Americans raising the U.S. flag tions Act provides a framework for the U.S. to aid the self-governing To make matters worse for the val engineers who were experts efforts to get the Japanese to on Iwo Jima on Feb. 23, 1945. island’s defense. On Feb. 17, China held naval and air drills in the Americans, many of the tunnels at building roads and would be surrender, only 216 were taken Marine Sgt. Bill Genaust, who waters off the southeastern coast of Taiwan. Smart sea gliders improve ocean observation, ocean prediction by Daniel Parry salinity; in effect, observing the data back in real time.” other to maximize their limited quired a change in piloting tech- provide reasonable paths under Scientists from the Naval Re- ocean’s weather. Because of the ocean’s vast spatial coverage. niques, adding complexity to the these restrictions. search Laboratory’s Ocean Sci- “Predicting the ocean’s interior volume, efficiently placing a Book said a slowly moving, project. To enable piloting gliders Book and the research team ad- ences Division are optimizing weather is challenging, yet it has small number of gliders to cap- single glider by itself cannot tell together, researchers built on an justed GHOST to employ glider the placement of ocean gliders important implications for all ture observations of a dynamic the difference between a station- existing automated piloting tool teams by adding two rules. and the usage of glider data to those who sail and operate on its environment can be tricky. ary, kilometers-long ocean fea- developed by NRL called Guid- “The first rule was gliders improve the Navy’s ability to waters,” said Jeffrey Book, an Recently, NRL researchers ture and a traveling ocean feature ance for Heterogeneous Observa- shouldn’t be too close together, predict ocean conditions. NRL oceanographer. “To help have been looking at ways to opti- that oscillates over several hours. tion Systems or GHOST. because current models can’t use Researchers frequently use mitigate this problem, the ocean mize glider placement, including On the other hand, a team of glid- GHOST has the ability to data collected too close to each gliders - slow-moving, long-en- observing community has been using them in teams. ers working together can provide optimize single glider use with other,” said Charlie Barron, head durance underwater vehicles - to developing new techniques for The current paradigm in de- spatial context and potentially user-defined conditions. 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