Pacific Assault Six Series

Flags of Our Fathers

February 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima
In order to seize Iwo Jima, the Japanese strategic bombing as a transit airport, drawn up by the U.S. Pacific theater as a Marine landing force 3,4,5-division plan of attack. U.S. military is facing the road was studied in the U.S. will and loyalty Kuribayashi Equestrian Champions 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Baron West of bamboo and other familiar with a Japanese military commanders in Europe and America, aware of the characteristics of U.S. military operations to give the U.S. the biggest casualties Kuribayashi for combat purposes, the Iwo Jima turned into a three-dimensional tunnel plus bunker fortifications , while the high ground on the island - almost emptied Balsan off into a huge bunker.
February 19, after three days of large-caliber gun and the baptism of countless bombs, the U.S. military forces landed smoothly on the floor of the living creatures of Iwo Jima is almost invisible. But the U.S. military did not expect to complete the planned 5 days combat, eventually evolved into a nightmare for more than a month ......
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