Superfort

Air Power

S01E18
March 10, 1957 30 min

Overview

In World War II′s Battle of Iwo Jima in February–March 1945, United States Marine Corps forces seize Iwo Jima from the Japanese to secure a base from which U.S. Army Air Forces fighters can reach the Japanese Home Islands and on which damaged U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers can land if unable to reach their bases in the Mariana Islands.

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