To: ricmc2175
The political general who ran this campaign lost more men at D-Day than MacArthur lost retaking the entire south Pacific. Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.
10 posted on
06/11/2015 6:32:37 AM PDT by
Timocrat
(Ingnorantia non excusat)
To: Timocrat
That was not MacArthur's, remember there was divided command between the Navy and the Army in the Pacific. Each had their zones of responsibility. I do note however that you do not refute the “political” charge. Holding back Patton so the Soviets could take Eastern Europe was a political, not a military decision. As was Sicily and holding Patton in reserve in England on D-Day and . . . .
To: Timocrat
Iwo Jima was not under MacArthur but under Nimitz.
To: Timocrat
Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima. And we lost more than 12,500 during Operation Iceberg, the capture of Okinawa.
34 posted on
06/11/2015 7:13:30 AM PDT by
ScottinVA
(The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
To: Timocrat
WE should never have given Iwo back to the Japanese. We paid too high a price for it.
To: Timocrat
The United States Army lost the same amount of men fighting in the Pacific, as the Navy and Marines lost, in the entire war combined.
51 posted on
06/11/2015 8:11:42 AM PDT by
ansel12
To: Timocrat
“Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.”
And the allies lost over 12,000 dead taking Okinawa.
To: Timocrat
Re: “The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.”
True, but the other comment specified the “south Pacific.”
Iwo Jima is 24.5 degrees north of the equator.
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