From February 19 to March 26, 1945, in order to greatly improve the efficiency of the B-29 "Super Fortress" heavy bombers taking off from Mariana Airport in strategic bombing of the Japanese mainland and reduce its high losses, the US military launched the Iwo Jima The campaign aimed to seize this strategic location between Mariana and the Japanese mainland, use the island's airport to take off P-51 fighter jets, escort B-29s taking off from Mariana to bomb Japan, and receive damaged B-29 emergency landing transfers. The U. S. Military dispatched three main offensive Marine divisions and about 110,000 other auxiliary troops. After more than a month of extremely cruel and bloody battles, and after paying a heavy price of more than 28,000 casualties, about 21,000 Japanese troops defending the island were wiped out. This was the only case in the island offensive and defensive battles in the Pacific War that the casualty rate of the attacking US troops exceeded that of the Japanese defenders. This book is based on rich relevant historical materials from both the United States and Japan, and vividly and concretely tells the tortuous and tragic entire process of the Iwo Jima offensive and defensive battle.
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Very worth collecting
There is a sentence in the book that particularly impressed me: "After paying a heavy price of more than 28,000 casualties, the U. S. Military annihilated about 21,000 Japanese troops defending the island." You can imagine the cruelty of the war. The author's description is very vivid, and I feel like I have participated in this battle. I recommend you check it out too!
Very worth collecting
There is a sentence in the book that particularly impressed me: "After paying a heavy price of more than 28,000 casualties, the U. S. Military annihilated about 21,000 Japanese troops defending the island." You can imagine the cruelty of the war. The author's description is very vivid, and I feel like I have participated in this battle. I recommend you check it out too!
This book is well written