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US Landing on Iwo Jima   Print 
by nie
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Friday, February 19 2010, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Beginning at dawn in 1945, 30,000 US troops landed in Iwo Jima.  Initially there was little resistance, but 21,500 Japanese troops stood ready underground to fight to the last man to protect massive fortifications linked by tunnels.


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