EXTRA FACTS
- If you directly translate Iwo Jima into Japanese, it means Sulfur Island
- Sadly, the smell of sulfur was everywhere giving the island a terrible stench of rotten eggs
- If you were driving a vehicle at a speed of 75 miles per hour, it would take you
3 minutes, 12 seconds to get from one end of the island to the other - The American flag was raised at Mount Suribachi on day four of a battle that lasted 36 days
- American casualties included 6,891 dead and 18,070 wounded
- The Japanese fared much worse. Of their approximately 22,000 soldiers — only 1,083 survived
- The True battle lasted for a grand total of 36 days