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A Controversial Attack By the end of February 1944, Allied forces had gained control of the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific Ocean and moved on to the Marianas, where 20,000 U.S. troops–by far the largest force used in a Pacific operation thus far–put ashore on Saipan on June 15. After fierce resistance by the […]

Without a scrap of cover in sight, U.S. Marines plod through volcanic sand as they start their advance inland in the bloodiest of their battles, on Iwo Jima, March 2, 1945. Their third airfield on Iwo and the end of the battle is not far off. (AP Photo/INP/Paige Abbott) Battle Of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, D Day, The Battle, Historical Figures

The Japanese defending Iwo Jima on D-day displayed superb tactical discipline. As Lieutenant Colonel Justus M. ‘Jumpin’ Joe’ Chambers led his 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, across the first terrace on the right flank of the landing beaches, he encountered interlocking bands of automatic-weapons fire unlike anything he had faced in Tulagi or Saipan. ‘You could’ve held up a cigarette and lit it on the stuff going by,’ he recalled. ‘I knew immediately we were in for one hell of a time.’

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