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The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.
On February 19, 1945, men of the United States Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, part of the Volcano Islands chain, in the North Pacific. This invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was a phase of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
Aerial View of Iwo Jima, 1945: Author: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA: Licensing. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Haha-Jima and Chichi-Jima in the Bonin Islands and Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands in particular were attacked by US aircraft. Beginning in late 1944, the United States Navy’s and Royal Navy's carrier-based aircraft attacked Japanese military forces on the Ryukyu Islands. This included the islands of Amami, Tanega, Yaku, Kikai, Miyako, Tokuno ...
The regiment's next assignment proved to be their most difficult; in the spring of 1945, the Ohioans fought in the Battle of Iwo Jima. [6] In the early days of the Marine landings, the 147th was ordered to climb from landing craft with grappling hooks to scale a high ridge about 3/4 mile from Mount Suribachi .
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 December 2024. One of the Japanese Volcano Islands This article is about the island in the Volcano Archipelago. For other uses, see Battle of Iwo Jima and Iwo Jima (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Iejima. Iōtō (Iwo Jima) Native name: 硫黄島 Photo of Iwo Jima (Iōtō), c. 2016, with Mount ...
Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island, and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (taken by Joe Rosenthal), later wins a Pulitzer Prize. The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
English: “DIVISION COMMAND POST--- Officers of the Fifth Marine Division direct the operation of their unit from a sandbagged position on Iwo Jima. They are, (left to right in the foreground): Brigadier General Leo D. Hermle, Assistant Division Commander; Major General Keller E. Rockey, (with phone), Division Commander; Colonel James F. Shaw, operations officer, and Colonel Ray Robinson ...