Hindsight is 20/20.
Watching the Military Channel as we speak. Of the 21,000 Japanese troops on Iwo Jima (Feb 1945), only 200 were taken alive. Hell on Earth, as described by our boys.
We didn’t have a clue what we would be up against with the Japanese, or the Nazis.
I forget who said, “The absence of war is not necessarily peace”.
God Bless our precious Troops - past, present, and future.
Tarawa was the one that was pretty striking to me. Of around 4500 Japanese soldiers, only 17 were captured on the little atoll.