Target Suribachi

B-29s bomb Tokyo.

The video also talks about the great fire raids. 66 cities were firebombed.

U.S. planes bomb and strafe ships and Japanese planes on the ground.

Factories are also attacked.

Iwo Jima, once it had been taken from the Japanese, was used as a landing point for B-29's damaged on the raids over Japan.

Then the video talks about staging and supply bases.

It also covers repair areas.

Cargo ships.

Then the video talks about the danger from bad weather.

The weather could get bad enough to severely damage planes on the carriers.

The bad weather would also, of course, hit the islands where the men were stationed.

February, 1945, Iwo Jima is attacked. (Although the episode is Target: Suribachi, it's some 19 minutes into the 26 minute video before the battle of Iwo Jima is actually covered.)

Suribachi is shelled.

Carrier-based planes join the attack. Th film says some 5,000 Marines were killed taking the island, but some 25,000 lives of pilots and crewmen were saved by the use of the island as an emergency landing area.

Marines make their way up Mt. Suribachi.

The second flag is raised on the top of Mt. Suribachi.

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