A lot of historians have questioned the need to take Iwo citing various factors. I personally think it's a matter of 20/20 hindsight as the the first night raids from the Marianas occurred after Iwo had been invaded.
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That is a very stirring photo ... speaks to the supremacy of the US in the Pacific Campaign. Distances and scales involved, this campaign is arguably the most complicated campaign in human history. Made more impressive becuase the campaign went from idle in neutral to turbo ovrrdrive in only four years.
No one expected the battle to be a blood bath.A lot of historians have questioned the need to take Iwo citing various factors. I personally think it's a matter of 20/20 hindsight as the the first night raids from the Marianas occurred after Iwo had been invaded.
More likely over Paramishiru.I have never seen this picture. It is amazing! A B-25 Mitchell of the 77th Bomb Squadron under attack by a Japanese fighter in the Aleutians.
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The vehicle the picture was taken from appears to be 251/9 Stummel version with the 7.5cm gun.Histomil.com
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Don't know if many of you have had the chance to sit the driver's seat of a T-34 but it takes a considerable amount of contortions to drop in!View attachment 572757
Column of Soviet T-34 tanks at Konigsberg, East Prussia, 1945. No photo credit available.
Right, nobody had foreseen the night raids either when the invasion was planned. That partially relieved the need for escort fighters.No one expected the battle to be a blood bath.