FMHA Film and Lecture Series: Assault on Iwo Jima

The 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions attacked the small island of Iwo Jima in February 1945, 73 years ago. Theirbattle was to take no more than three days but lasted more than a month withover 6800 US Marines killed and over 20,000 Japanese soldiers. It was the firstAmerican attack on Japanese soil; the great American sacrifice and thefanatical Japanese defense did much to determine months later the droppingof the two atomic bombs.