Why did American landing forces take heavy losses when assaulting the island of Iwo Jima?

With the Americans struggling to get a foothold on the beaches of Iwo Jima—literally and figuratively—Kuribayashi’s artillery positions in the mountains above opened fire, stalling the advancing Marines and inflicting significant casualties.

Why was it hard for the first soldiers who landed in Normandy to get past the beach?

According to this report, why was it hard for the first soldiers who landed in Normandy to get past the beach? The German defense of Normandy was ferocious, especially at Omaha Beach. Study each document carefully and answer the question about it. Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

Was D-Day really bad?

D-Day was a historic World War II invasion, but the events of June 6, 1944 encompassed much more than a key military victory. Despite tough odds and high casualties, Allied forces ultimately won the battle and helped turn the tide of World War II toward victory against Hitler’s forces.

What happened to all the dead bodies in ww2?

The answer depends on where the bodies were. Some were buried in mass graves, some were incinerated, some (relatively few) were brought back home and reintered. Some just disappeared. There are military graveyards all over north Africa, Italy, France filled with soldiers and sailors that never went back home.

Could Iwo Jima have been bypassed?

Had Iwo Jima been bypassed, the Pacific War would have ended at much the same time and in much the same way as it did. But more substantively, the three marine divisions used in the capture of Iwo Jima would have been available to support the invasion of Okinawa.

What is the cemetery in Saving Private Ryan?

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial

Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Commemorated	1,557
Burials by nation
* United States: 9,388
Burials by war

What happened to the general and his friend?

The general walked in and bet a friend that he could shoot a comb off a waitress’s head; the bullet struck her in the forehead, and she fell dead, her skull split open. Marshall claimed to remember both men laughing uproariously.

How many US infantry fired their weapons at the enemy in combat?

Marshall claimed that no more than one-fifth of U.S. infantry ever fired their weapons at the enemy in combat. “He said: ‘Young man, have you anything to drink?’

Did you know one GI thought he was a liar?

But one GI thought he was a liar… When Col. Samuel Lyman Marshall came home in 1945, he was one of millions of Americans who had served in the Second World War. Perhaps a third of them had seen combat, and Marshall, as the European theater’s deputy historian, had talked to an unprecedentedly large number of them.

How old was General Marshall when he was commissioned as an officer?

A footnote to this incident says that Marshall “was commissioned from the ranks and at age seventeen was the youngest commissioned officer in the AEF [American Expeditionary Forces].” He spent the years between wars as a newspaperman, first in El Paso and later on the Detroit News, working as a reporter and reading about war.