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Bayou Renaissance Man reminds us that February 19 was the 67th Anniversary of the United States Marines landing on Iwo Jima.
The struggle was titanic, and for the first time in the Pacific war the Marines suffered more casualties than the Japanese (26,031 killed, wounded and captured versus 22,060, although over 99% of the Japanese casualties were killed compared to less than 27% of US casualties). 27 Medals of Honor were awarded, 13 of them posthumously - more than a quarter of all MoH awards to Marines during the Pacific War.
Think about that.
To ultimately take a tiny island that was nothing except strategic.
The beginning of the end of the war.

h/t Peter