“More than 1,800 Marines and sailors were rescued, treated, and saved on D-Day, but an estimated 550 were killed outright or died of their wounds on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, alone –Source: page 88 of Eric Hammel’s IWO JIMA
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“More than 1,800 Marines and sailors were rescued, treated, and saved on D-Day, but an estimated 550 were killed outright or died of their wounds on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, alone –Source: page 88 of Eric Hammel’s IWO JIMA