[donmeaker]

Guadualcanal was rather like Iwo Jima: Attacks that didn’t do much toward winning the war but may have been necessary for politics.

[Fiji Hill]

Guadualcanal was rather like Iwo Jima: Attacks that didn’t do much toward winning the war but may have been necessary for politics.

The US occupation of Iwo Jima saved the lives of many US fliers whose battle-damaged planes had to land there while returning from combat over Japan.