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US Marines storm the beaches of Iwo Jima after a short naval barrage, predicting a simple victory. When the Marines come ashore, Lt. General Kuribayashi unleashes his pre-sighted artillery firepower on the beach. Here we look at why was the naval barrage so ineffective at neutralising the Japanese artillery.
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Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. Flags of Our Fathers. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2016.
Kakehashi, Kumiko. So Sad to Fall in Battle: An Account of War. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2007.
King, Dan, and Linda Ryan. A Tomb Called Iwo Jima: Firsthand Accounts from Japanese Survivors. Rockwall, TX: Dan King, 2020.
Leckie, Robert, and Ted Burwell. The Battle for Iwo Jima. New York, NY: Random House, 1967.
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Appreciate the double upload. Day before Canada's long weekend so work is dead.
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Loving the new channel and new content. Great episode.
All the pre assult bombartment. Heavy bombers, Aircraft, rockets, all calibre ship bombartment. And those defenses still stood. A complete guess but given the ground and size of the tunnels I'm guessing most were hand dug. And survived all that. It's definitely impressive.
We’re so spoiled with the simultaneous uploads
kissinger said that military men are dumb animals to be used in foreign wars. how right he was!
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A huge change in future fights of this order would be close air support. Such as attack helicopters and harriers. A big part of bringing heavy ordinance to crack hardened bunkers like this with assault carriers from then on.
Once again, Amazing videos! I love these videos about breaking down the battles that have happened in history. Keep it up man!
This was the perfect follow up to the Iwo Jima video, the question I was itching to answer for sure. Thank you for adding on to your amazing work at Operations Room!
Cant wait to watch this channel grow too
With the benefit of hindsight, I do sometimes wonder if Iwo Jima would’ve been America’s first nuclear target after seeing the sheer level of carnage the assaults brought (if little boy & fat man were ready by D Day that is)
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Great job Operation Room. Go ahead and knock off early and head to the pub. The lads earned it.
These Commanders should have been prosecuted, not praised. But I am sure they got another shiny ribbon instead
At 2:42 you can see what appears to be a marine dual wielding Thompson smgs
Great vid for the new channel. As for Iwo Jima, if I was in charge I would've bypassed it and maybe put a nuke on it if needed.
Great video. Like this new format.
Using Gran Slams and other such weapons would have helped a lot.
I wonder how well those tunnels would have stood up to Tallboy or Grandslam earthquake bombs?
I would ask the question after the airfiled was knocked out as the main objective through heavy bombing why they cant surround this island without natural resouces and hunger its inhabitans into surrender?
Fantastic. I see you didn't let us down from your annoucment, exceptional work. Many thanks, and keep 'em coming!