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They needed a safe haven. Iwo Jima, halfway between Tokyo and the Marianas, was ideal. American landing strips on Iwo Jima would not only provide emergency assistance, but could also be a base for ...

So, the fact Iwo Jima had a landing strip on it was important for that reason, as well as serving as a base for the projected attack on Tokyo.” But the victory came at a tremendous cost to the Marines ...

landing on Filipino soil by October 1944, while Admiral Chester Nimitz advanced through the Central Pacific, seizing the Mariana Islands (which include the Northern Marianas and Guam.) Iwo Jima is ...

A war of tomorrow — rather than yesteryear — is coming into focus in the straits between the mainland and Taiwan.

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — Whatever you do, don’t call Don Whipple a former Marine. “Well, I never really actually got out of the Marines. You never get out of it. Once a Marine, always a Marine ...

(Claire Barrett) From Roi-Namur, Harris became a radio operator with Recon Company, landing at Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian before his final operation: Iwo Jima. And once again, Harris stepped forward.

An air and sea bombardment by US forces preceded the landing at Iwo Jima. Americans had total naval air and tank superiority, involved 60,000 forces, and deployed three times the number of ...

23, 1945, several days after the Marine landing on Iwo Jima. Luckes, whom I've previously written about in a 2020 Look Back, died June 20, 1996, and is buried in St. Mary's Cemetery in Hanover ...