the iwo jima battle took place at arlington national cemetery.
the iwo jima battle took place at arlington national cemetery.
where did the iwo jima battle take place?
arlington national cemetery
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the navy however preferred the idea of an operation against okinawa, which would be a mainly seaborne effort. seeking to gain leverage and so break the impasse, on 29 september nimitz suggested to admiral ernest king that as a preliminary to the okinawa offensive the island of iwo jima could be taken. the tiny island lacked harbors and so was of no direct interest to the navy, but for some time general henry harley arnold of the u.s. army air forces had been lobbying to take iwo jima. he argued that an airbase there would provide useful fighter escort cover for the b-29 superfortresses of his xx bomber command, then beginning its strategic bombing campaign against the japanese home islands (the later role of iwo jima as a refueling station for b-29s played no part in the original decision-making process). arnold's support in the jcs enabled the navy to get okinawa rather than formosa approved as the main target on 2 october. at this time the iwo jima invasion was expected to be a brief prologue to the main campaign, with relatively light casualties; king assumed that nimitz would be able to reuse three of the marine corps divisions assigned to iwo jima for the attack on okinawa, which was originally scheduled to take place just forty days later.
planning for the battle of iwo jima