The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 Americans.
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While other nations had converted ships into carriers the Japanese ship, named Hōshō, was the first to be designed and constructed as an aircraft carrier from the outset.
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At 9am on the 26th March 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima ended as US Marines officially secured the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific.
On the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.
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