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In Reply to: "Letters from Iwo Jima." Definitely worth posted by tinear on January 29, 2007 at 16:24:20:
I didn't get the impression that few Americans were killed. It felt about right. In the battle about 4,100 Americans were killed and 20+ thousand Japanese were killed.
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But from the Japanese perspective if they had 20k troop spread over the whole island in cave networks then no one of them or small group of them was really privy to the overall scale of it.
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