Casualties In The Battle Of Iwo Jima

In the Battle of Iwo Jima there were over 40,000 casualties on both sides of the field (World Book Online). The Battle of Iwo Jima was one of the most-bloodiest battles of World War II. The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought by the United States and Japan. The Japanese use Guerrilla fighting tactics (Smith, Larry). The Battle of Iwo Jima was a turning point for the United States in World War II. First, The Japanese and the Americans both had good defensive tactics (World Book Online). The Japanese and Americans both were good on the defensive side of the battle field. Secondly, The Japanese had hospitals and camps inside the underground fortified caves of Iwo Jima (Smith, Larry). So the Japanese had hospitals and camps in the underground caves of Iwo Jima. Lastly, despite the difficulties,” the marines wiped out all the defending forces after a month of fighting on the island of Iwo Jima”. The Americans fought till there were no Japanese people on the island and that was a terrific

First, the United States Marines mission was to seize all the Japanese airfields (Jima), and that was very difficult because the Japanese didn’t care if they died they were expendable but the United States Marines were not and still aren’t because we want all of our troops to live not die. Secondly, there were over 40,000 casualties in the Battle of Iwo Jima (Mueller, Luke), like many people had children and families that cared for them and that battlefield changed it all. Finally, U.S Marines raided Japanese home islands because that was their mission and I think that was wrong of them, and that was very rude of them to do that. “Casualties in World War II numbered in the millions” and that is terrible because our troops are not expendable but they had to do what they had to do in order to help stop World War