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Originally Posted by dirk digler
Yep.
Iwo Jima was about a hundred times worse than D-Day.
Through in Tarawa and Peleliu and it was brutal hand-to-hand fighting.
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Betio had the worst ratio of American killed & wounded of any battle by far. Unfortunately it was a lesson we had to learn, the first opposed amphibious assault of the war.
Had we invaded Iwo 6 months earlier, as Halsey wanted to, it would have been a cake walk. And the sad thing about Peleliu is it was totally unnecessary, and opposed by everyone except Nimitz.