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    a few hours.(the Iwo Jima landing map is notated that the Marine Corps planned to have control of Iwo Jima in 3 days also) For Iwo, the 4th and 5th Marine...
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    Harlon Block (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    States Marine Corps corporal who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps...
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    Battle[1] Annex FOX to The 4th Mar. Div. Op Report for the 23rd Marines on Iwo Jima|[2] Annex FOX to the 4th Mar. Div. Op Report for the 23d Marines p. 2-4|...
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    regiments. However, for landing assaults the Corps had CBs temporarily assigned to fill shore party assignments on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. "The entire...
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    on Iwo Jima were able to attack the B-29s on their bombing missions, and even to attack installations in the Marianas themselves. The capture of Iwo Jima...
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    USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7) (category Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships)
    USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7), the third Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter), was launched by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 16 March 1963,...
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    USS Okinawa (LPH-3) (category Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships)
    USS Okinawa (LPH–3) was the second Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. She was the second Navy ship assigned the name "Okinawa"...
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    part in a number of significant battles including those at Saipan and Iwo Jima before being deactivated at the end of the war. In the early 1960s, the...
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  • Robert Harold Davidson (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    his actions as the commanding Officer of a battalion in the Battle of Iwo Jima. At age 24, Davidson was one of the youngest officers in Marine Corps history...
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    proved vulnerable to pre-invasion shore bombardment. Later at Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, they switched strategies and dug in their forces in the most...
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