About 6,000 Marines would die in a little over a month taking a smelly island that could have been bypassed. 22 Marines and 5 Navy would be awarded the Medal of Honor and one Marine who had been awarded the MOH on Guadalcanal would be KIA.
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About 6,000 Marines would die in a little over a month taking a smelly island that could have been bypassed. 22 Marines and 5 Navy would be awarded the Medal of Honor and one Marine who had been awarded the MOH on Guadalcanal would be KIA.
Lots of laughs over 6,000 Marines killed in a single month. Every square inch of the island was covered by intersecting machine gun fire. Every square foot was registered by mortar fire. They made a big show of surprising the Germans at Normandy but there was no surprises at Iwo Jima and yet the Navy had better things than to shell the island for the requisite time. Shelling might not have done any good because the Japanese had forty years to erect pill boxes connected to underground tunnels. It was suicide. The ironic thing was that the "Bomb" was in the works and the war was over in six months. It's possible that Marines were sacrificed assaulting an impregnable fortress to encourage support for using a nuclear weapon on civilians.a lot of armchair generals here
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I guess they should've bypassed everything and just went to Japan
ok General ArmchairLots of laughs over 6,000 Marines killed in a single month. Every square inch of the island was covered by intersecting machine gun fire. Every square foot was registered by mortar fire. They made a big show of surprising the Germans at Normandy but there was no surprises at Iwo Jima and yet the Navy had better things than to shell the island for the requisite time. Shelling might not have done any good because the Japanese had forty years to erect pill boxes connected to underground tunnels. It was suicide. The ironic thing was that the "Bomb" was in the works and the war was over in six months. It's possible that Marines were sacrificed assaulting an impregnable fortress to encourage support for using a nuclear weapon on civilians.a lot of armchair generals here
hahhahahahahahha
I guess they should've bypassed everything and just went to Japan
.....you don't know your WW2 history....at Tarawa they had more than TWICE as many killed per day ---I guess we should've bypassed that one?? bypass them all???!!!!Lots of laughs over 6,000 Marines killed in a single month. Every square inch of the island was covered by intersecting machine gun fire. Every square foot was registered by mortar fire. They made a big show of surprising the Germans at Normandy but there was no surprises at Iwo Jima and yet the Navy had better things than to shell the island for the requisite time. Shelling might not have done any good because the Japanese had forty years to erect pill boxes connected to underground tunnels. It was suicide. The ironic thing was that the "Bomb" was in the works and the war was over in six months. It's possible that Marines were sacrificed assaulting an impregnable fortress to encourage support for using a nuclear weapon on civilians.a lot of armchair generals here
hahhahahahahahha
I guess they should've bypassed everything and just went to Japan
...they had just as many killed per day at Salerno --I guess we should've bypassed Salerno and went to Berlin?Lots of laughs over 6,000 Marines killed in a single month. Every square inch of the island was covered by intersecting machine gun fire. Every square foot was registered by mortar fire. They made a big show of surprising the Germans at Normandy but there was no surprises at Iwo Jima and yet the Navy had better things than to shell the island for the requisite time. Shelling might not have done any good because the Japanese had forty years to erect pill boxes connected to underground tunnels. It was suicide. The ironic thing was that the "Bomb" was in the works and the war was over in six months. It's possible that Marines were sacrificed assaulting an impregnable fortress to encourage support for using a nuclear weapon on civilians.a lot of armchair generals here
hahhahahahahahha
I guess they should've bypassed everything and just went to Japan
Total waste by both nations. Entirely unnecessary.About 6,000 Marines would die in a little over a month taking a smelly island that could have been bypassed. 22 Marines and 5 Navy would be awarded the Medal of Honor and one Marine who had been awarded the MOH on Guadalcanal would be KIA.
About 1.600 Marines were killed on Tarawa in a week of fighting. A significant number but many Marines were killed when faulty intelligence failed to calculate the tides and the landing craft were stuck on the reefs while Marines had to wade ashore in deep water......you don't know your WW2 history....at Tarawa they had more than TWICE as many killed per day ---I guess we should've bypassed that one?? bypass them all???!!!!Lots of laughs over 6,000 Marines killed in a single month. Every square inch of the island was covered by intersecting machine gun fire. Every square foot was registered by mortar fire. They made a big show of surprising the Germans at Normandy but there was no surprises at Iwo Jima and yet the Navy had better things than to shell the island for the requisite time. Shelling might not have done any good because the Japanese had forty years to erect pill boxes connected to underground tunnels. It was suicide. The ironic thing was that the "Bomb" was in the works and the war was over in six months. It's possible that Marines were sacrificed assaulting an impregnable fortress to encourage support for using a nuclear weapon on civilians.a lot of armchair generals here
hahhahahahahahha
I guess they should've bypassed everything and just went to Japan