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100
Field guns and some types of 95 light tanks
What is the Japanese's standard weapons?
100
3
What is the number of air fields that were captured by the US on Iwo Jima?
100
216 Japanese 2 Americans
What is the number of Japanese troops that were captured compared to the US?
100
kamikaze
What is the name of the piolets that the japanese used?
100
February 19, 1945
What is the date of the beginning of this battle?
200
None
What is the amount of atomic bombs that were used in the battle of iwo jima?
200
they could be used as emergency landing bases for damaged airplanes in the bombing raids
What is the reason that the americans wanted to take control of iwo jima's air fields?
200
6,821
What is the number of deaths for the Americans?
200
70,000
What is the amount of troops brought in by the US?
200
Operation Detachment
What is the other common name for this battle?
300
For the delivery of the atomic bomb.
What is the need of taking iwo jima for the importance of D-Day?
300
The United States fought for the capture of the island from the empire of Japan.
What is the reason Americans invaded the small island of Iwo Jima?
300
19,217
What the number of wounded American soilders?
300
Iwo Jima had radar to notify
What did iwo jima use to realize that the americans where coming?
300
The tunnels linking to the main forces were never completed?
What is the difficulty of using the tunnels of iwo jima?
400
nuclear bombs
What is the name of the main weapon that the americans used Iwo jima to store?
400
22,000
What is the number of men the Japanese were able to shelter in their bunkers?
400
the japanese troops were entrenched in tunnels and caves
What is the reason that marines had the greatest number of deaths in any battle in the pacific at this ponit?
400
Tadamichi Kuribavashi & Takeichi Nishi
Who were the Japanese commanders?
400
D-Day
What is the name of the following battle?
500
because most of the Japanese positions were well-fortified and protected from shelling
What is the reason that american artillary wasnt even making a dent in the defeat of Iwo Jima ?
500
they decided not to establish the defenses on the beach to oppose the landings directly
What is the reason that the japanese didnt want to establish their defenses on the beach?
500
70,000
What is the amount of american marines that america came with ?
500
18km or 11 miles
What is the length of the underground tunnels, that were used by the Japanese army?
500
4.5 miles
What is the length of iwo jima?