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33 posted on 02/19/2025 7:49:23 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Iwo Jima was the rare instance where everyone on the island was a combatant. No civilians at all.

The Japanese had abandoned the banzai charge of Guadalcanal and replaced that odd strategy with building an underground city of bombproof tunnels. So all of the pre-invasion bombardment by ships and aircraft accomplished nothing.


51 posted on 02/19/2025 2:56:59 PM PST by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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