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The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima

The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.

Aired: Jul 02, 2009 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: United Kingdom Production:

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01: Stalingrad - 1942 02: Trafalgar 1805 03: Pearl Harbour 04: The Battle of Marathon 05: The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima 06: D-Day 07: The Battle of Waterloo - 1815 08: Chalons 09: Battle of Hastings 1066 10: Merrill’s Marauders 11: The Battle of Austerlitz 12: Gallipoli 13: Midway 14: The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 15: The Armada - 1588 16: Battle of the Bulge 17: The Third Crusade 18: The battle of Alesia 19: Cannae 20: The Six-Day War 21: The Battle of Britain 22: Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II 23: The Battle of Agincourt 24: The Battle of Inchon 25: Tobruk 26: Little Bighorn 27: Cambrai 1917 28: Operation Desert Storm 29: The Great War 30: Saratoga and The Battle of Rivoli 31: The Battle for Berlin 32: The Battle of El Alamein 33: TET Ofenssive 34: The Russo-Finnish War 35: The Battle of Tannenberg 36: Life in the Trenches 37: Monte Cassino 1944 38: Balaclava 1854 39: Guadalcanal