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The USMC (United States Marine Corps) and the Japanese. I'm not quite sure whatJapanese force it was but I think it was the Japanese Imperial Army.

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Iwo Jima had several airfields. Allied war planners decided that they wanted these airfields for several reasons:

  1. Japanese fighters taking off from these airfields could threaten B-29s flying from the Marianas Islands to attack Japan.
  2. B-29s needed an emergency landing field. The airfields in the Marianas Islands were at the extreme end of the B-29s' range, and there was no place for B-29s to land should they have problems (mechanical issues, battle damage, etc.). Iwo Jima was suitably located as an emergency landing field.
  3. US fighters based at Iwo Jima could provide protective escort duty for the B-29s over Japan.

As it turned out, none of these reasons were sound. The Japanese did not have sufficient resources to reliably intercept B-29s using fighters based at Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was only use a handful of times (less than a dozen) as an emergency stop for the B-29s. And US escort fighters were not needed by the B-29s, since the Japanese airforce had been effectively eliminated by the time the US captured Iwo Jima.

Strategically, Iwo Jima was a battle that needn't be fought. The airfields were of no worth, Iwo Jima was unsuitable as a base for the planned invasion of Japan, and Japanese forces based at Iwo Jima were of no threat to the Allied forces (either the B-29s or to the planned invasion force).

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During World War II, the island of Iwo Jima, located south of Japan some 750 miles, was the site of a violent battle between American and Japanese soldiers. One of the last of the amphibious invasions engaged by American forces during the war, it resulted in a bloody victory for the United States with one particular photograph (of a flag being raised during battle by American soldiers) becoming quite famous soon after the island-battle concluded.

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America and Japanese military forces fought on the island of Imo Jima. It was a fierce fight as the Emperor ordered the Japanese troops to fight to the death. There was to be no surrender. This policy caused almost 22,000 Japanese deaths. A handful of Japanese soldiers finally did surrender. The Emperor's policy was based on the fact that this was the first confrontation on pre-war Japanese territory.

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General Holland Smith also known as "howling mad"

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The United States. by the way your question is "Who WON the battle of iwo jima"

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The USMC (The US Marine Corps)

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Americans and Japanese

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WAS BAD

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