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Originally Posted by Rochard
Iwo Jima is all of eight square miles and had some twenty-two thousand Japanese troops. Eventually seventy thousand US Marines were landed there.
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I know that.
and thanks for reinforcing my point that we couldn't accumulate large #s casualties in a naval war. 70,000 marines + 22,000 japanese doesn't even compare to 2,000,000 russians and manchurians.