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The battle, which took place in the winter of 1945, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. In one month, 22,000 Japanese and 26,000 Americans died, and one of the outcomes was one of World War II's most enduring images: a photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, the island's commanding high point.

The number of U.S killed is way off. It was more like 7500. While still a large number, it's not quite 26,000. Semper Fi.


SIC (Forward)

[pepsionice]

I may be one of the few people around who say this...but I would have preferred to nuke the island and use that as a demo model for Japan to observe. We would have killed the 22k Japanese soldiers anyway....and it would have been worth the effort.