Iwo Jima and Okinawa
•From these bases Americans could fly and return with bombers to bomb Tokyo
•Men fought to the death and very few prisoners
•Kamikazes active
•Fire bombing of Tokyo after islands taken
•Invasion of Japan estimated to take 1 million American casualties
Summary:
Iwo Jima and Okinawa were two home Islands in Japan. A lot of Soldiers died on these islands. Tokyo was then fire bombed after these islands were taken. This was a dangerous mission.
•Men fought to the death and very few prisoners
•Kamikazes active
•Fire bombing of Tokyo after islands taken
•Invasion of Japan estimated to take 1 million American casualties
Summary:
Iwo Jima and Okinawa were two home Islands in Japan. A lot of Soldiers died on these islands. Tokyo was then fire bombed after these islands were taken. This was a dangerous mission.
"Thousands of us cheered, even though neither the battle nor the war was over," Miller writes in the book "From the Volcano to the Gorge/Getting the Job Done on Iwo Jima." "I'm pleased to have been there for that moving and historic moment."
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