From left to right: Colonel Robert E. Hogaboom (Chief of Staff, 3rd Marine Division); Major general Graves B. Erskine (Commanding general, 3rd Marine Division) and Colonel John B. Wilson (acting Assistant Commanding general, 3rd Marine Division) near the field command post on Iwo Jima, February 1945
Photograph by Sgt. Bell
Battle of Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the goal of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.
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