Only 24k Marines died in WW2
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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:14 PM Author: Green pit fortuitous meteor
wow seems low when you read about Iwo Jima, but I guess only five thousand Americans died there, and considering it was one of the biggest islands they took, makes sense.
Every death is still a tragedy.
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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:38 PM Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
only?
only 3000 troops died during the vaunted D day, and the Marines has multiple battles with much higher casualty rates
also we killed like 10x as many japs
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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:03 PM Author: Bright odious giraffe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cartwheel
"In the midst of Operation Cartwheel, the Joint Chiefs met with President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Quadrant Conference in Quebec City in August 1943. There, the decision was made to bypass and isolate Rabaul, rather than attempting to capture the base, and to attack Kavieng instead. Soon afterward, the decision was made to bypass Kavieng as well. Although initially objected to by MacArthur, the bypassing of Rabaul, instead of its neutralisation, meant that his Elkton plan had been achieved, and after invading Saidor, he then moved into his Reno Plan, an advance across the north coast of New Guinea to Mindanao.
The campaign, which stretched into 1944, showed the effectiveness of a strategy of avoiding major concentrations of enemy forces and instead aiming to sever the Japanese lines of supply and communication."
"As American submarines disrupted supply lines, Japanese soldiers on the Pacific islands were particularly badly affected, with 15,000 starving to death on Guadalcanal alone. The survivors who surrendered were emaciated, suffering from scurvy, “thin as thread,” as their commander noted. Ninety percent of the 158,000 Japanese troops in New Guinea died of starvation and tropical diseases, and there were widespread reports that they were killing and eating some of the prisoners they took. In the Philippines 400,000 out of nearly half a million Japanese troops starved to death."
https://www.thenation.com/article/food-fights/
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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:10 PM Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
“Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki, an experienced combat officer from the campaigns in China, relieved Tomonari on July 20, 1943, in anticipation of the coming fight. Shibazaki continued the defensive preparations right up to the day of the invasion. He encouraged his troops, saying "it would take one million men one hundred years" to conquer Tarawa.”
The Marines did it in three days
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa
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Date: July 24th, 2018 5:16 AM Author: Olive stead sweet tailpipe
most-fortified ones we fought over is the key distinction.
Big fortresses like Rabul and Truk were bypassed and only islands necessary as steppingstones for the twin goals of a) Philippines, and B) Japanese homeland were taken. Iwo was necessary as a stopping point between the Marshalls and the Ryukus (where we would launch invasion of home islands from)
Tarawa, while nasty, wasn't a built-up cave fortress system like Iwo, constructed over years.
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