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Mar 1. 94. 5Contributor: C. Peter Chen ww. 2dbase. Iwo Jima is a small speck in the Pacific; it is 4. Iwo is the Japanese word for sulfur, and the island is indeed full of sulfur. Yellow sulfuric mist routinely rises from cracks of earth, and the island distinctly smells like rotten eggs. Since winning Saipan in the previous year, American bomber commander Curtis Le.

May had been planning raids on the Japanese home islands from there, and the first of such bombings took place in Nov 1. The bombers, however, were threatened by Iwo Jima in two ways. First, the Zero fighters based on Iwo Jima physically threatened the bombers; secondly, Iwo Jima also acted as an early warning station for Japan, giving Tokyo two hours of warning before the American bombers reached their targets. Moreover, the Japanese could (and did) launch aerial operations against Saipan from Iwo Jima.

Finally, the United States could gain an additional airfield for future operations against Japan if Iwo Jima could be captured. Watch The Veil Mediafire there. In the Philippines, the operation on the island of Leyte was pushed up by eight weeks due to lack of significant resistance, which opened up a window for an additional operation. Thus, Operation Detachment against Iwo Jima was decided. The defenders under the command of Tadamichi Kuribayashi were ready. The aim of the defense of Iwo Jima was to inflict severe casualties on the Allied forces and discourage invasion of the mainland.

Each defender was expected to die in defense of the homeland, taking 1. Within Mount Suribachi and underneath the rocks, 7. Some of them had steel doors to protect the artillery pieces within, and nearly all them were connected by a total of 1. On Mount Suribachi alone there were 1,0. Within them, 2. 1,0. Rear Admiral Toshinosuke Ichimaru, commander of the Special Naval Landing Forces on Iwo Jima wrote the following poem as he arrived at his underground bunker.

Let me fall like a flower petal. May enemy bombs be directed at me, and enemy shells. Mark me their target. Many years later, author James Bradley, son of one of the famous flag raisers (more on the flag raising later), visited the island. He noted that the tunnels were extremely sophisticated. Some of the walls were plastered, many of the rooms were well- ventilated, and in the hospital ward beds were meticulously carved out of the rock walls to efficiently make use of the space.

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The Americans knew the Japanese were expecting them, but when the field officers saw the intelligence reports, they were astonished by how many guns were present on the island. Black dots representing coastal defense guns, fox holes, artillery emplacements, anti- tank guns, blockhouses, pillboxes, and all sorts of defenses covered the whole island. The American intelligence only detected the presence of 1. Japanese, and even at that grossly underestimated quantity, it was already going to be a most difficult landing. Captain Dave Severance of the United States Marine Corps commented that looking at the intelligence map "scared the hell out of [him]." To soften up the defenses, beginning on 8 Dec 1.

B- 2. 9 Superfortress and B- 2. Liberator bombers began pounding the island. For 7. 0 days, the US 7th Air Force dropped 5,8.

Holland Smith, the Marines general in charge of the landing operation, knew that even the most impressive aerial bombings would not be enough, and requested 1. Marines struck the beaches. To his surprise and anger, the Navy rejected the request. D]ue to limitations on the availability of ships, difficulties of ammunition replacement, and the loss of surprise", the Navy said, made a prolonged bombardment impossible.

Instead, the Navy would only provide a three- day bombardment. When the bombardment began on 1. Feb, Smith realized it was not even a full three- day bombardment. Visibility limitations due to weather led to only half- day bombardments on the first and third days. Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance told Smith that he regretted the Navy's inability to suit the Marines to the fullest, but the Marines should be able to "get away with it." ww. At 0. 20. 0 on the morning of 1.

Feb, battleship guns signaled the commencement of D- Day, followed by a bombing of 1. Marine private Jim Buchanan of Portland, Oregon leaned against the railing of his ship as he watched the impressive explosions. Do you think there will be any Japanese left for us?" He asked his buddy next to him. Little did he know, while the 7. They were in it. The massive display of fireworks merely made a small dent in the defenders' numbers.

The naval bombardment stopped at 0. Marine Divisions, under V Amphibious Corps, departed in their landing craft. Watch Online Watch Smashed Full Movie Online Film on this page. They arrived at the beach 3 minutes later. It was uneventful.

They were sure that optimists like Jim Buchanan must be right, there were no Japanese left to fight; the only casualties that occurred were to drownings caused by a powerful undertow. Several more waves of landing crafts hit the beach and dropped off their men, tanks, and supplies continuously in the next hour, and it was about then when the thunders of the Japanese guns hit. Under Kuribayashi's specific instructions, they waited an hour for the beach to crowd up before the guns sounded so that every shot fired would inflict maximum damage on the Americans.

Smoke and earsplitting noise suddenly filled the universe," and the Marines had nowhere to hide as the volcanic sand was too soft to dig a proper foxhole. All they could do was move forward; some of those who could not move forward were crushed by tanks that were trying to get off of the beach like the men.

Navy Corpsman Roy Steinfort recalled that as he arrived on the beach, he was initially happy to see that countless Marines lay prone defending the beachhead. It did not take long to realize that the men were not in prone positions; they were all dead. Frantic radio calls reported back to the operations HQ: "All units pinned down by artillery and mortars", "casualties heavy", "taking heavy fire and forward movement stopped", and "artillery fire the heaviest ever seen".

By sun down, the Americans had already incurred 2,4. On the first night, the weather was as tough an enemy as the Japanese. Four- foot waves pounded the beach while the American Marines withstood the continuing Japanese artillery shelling. The 3. 0,0. 00 who survived the initial landing faced heavy fire from Mount Suribachi at the southern tip of the island, and fought over inhospitable terrain as they moved forward; the rough volcanic ash which allowed neither secure footing or the digging of a foxhole. The Marines advanced yards at a time, fighting the most violent battles they have yet experienced. There seemed to be no clean wounds; just fragments of corpses", said William Manchester.

Often the only way to tell between an American and Japanese body was to look at the bodies' legs: the Japanese leggings were made of khaki and the Americans canvas. Yard by yard, the American Marines advanced toward the base of Mount Suribachi. Gunfire was ineffective against the Japanese who were well dug- in, but flame throwers and grenades cleared the bunkers.

Some of the Americans charged too fast without their knowing. Thinking that enemy strong points had been overtaken, they moved forward, only to find that the Japanese would reoccupy the same pillboxes and machine gun nests from underground exits and fire from them from behind. Reporter Robert Sherrod noted that the advance had been nothing less than "a nightmare in hell..

The Marines] died with the greatest possible violence. Watch Erased Putlocker#. Nowhere in the Pacific have I seen such badly mangled bodies.

Many were cut squarely in half. Legs and arms lay fifty feet away from any body." ww. Chaplain Gage Hotaling, charged with burials, recalled "[w]e buried fifty at a time in bulldozed plots. We didn't know if they were Jewish, Catholic or whatever, so we said a general committal: 'We commit you into the earth and the mercy of Almighty God.' I buried eighteen hundred boys." ww.