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I found that the real reason for the invading Iwo Jima was so our B-52 bombers could successfully get to Japan and bomb it. But Iwo Jima had fighter planes that were constantly shooting down our planes. The Airforce used Saipan's airstrip to launch planes, but the airfield at Iwo Jima had to be taken if we had any hope of advancing.

For the Japanese, there were no medals for the survivors, only for the dead. They were to fight with no hope of survival. There objective was to make Americas attack a "costly" one. Their emperor instructed that every man should kill at least 10 Americans before you die. They Japps and The US fought very differently. The Japps were unpredictable and never surrendered. If surrounded, they would fight on, unlike a Nazi. Also, if they captured any of our soldiers, they would torture them until they were close to death! they would do the most unimaginable things. Like the nazis, the japps creates something similar to the atlantic wall, but better. With underground passages, blockhouses and pillboxes on top of the land, anti-aircraft guns hidden in the rocks,  and antipersonal mines, the Japps were ready to do their job.

Tomorrow is the invasion of Iwo Jima....All Marines are silent, symbolizing the amounts of death that will occur the following day. I probably wouldn't talk to anybody too. I would be thinking different thoughts to myself about friends and family. Maybe asking questions about the war or praying to God.

I chose this picture because medics were much different in the Pacific War and the European war. In the pacific the japps would kill medics. but in the european, both sides would cease fire so a medic could get to a wounded man and it was considered awful to kill an enemy medic.

If you can't see it it says: " A long haired, bearded, Marine-hatin' Sailor with certain medical skills, who would go through the very gates of Hell to tend to a wounded Marine."