The Pacific — Japan
Episodes 8–9 — Battle of Iwo Jima. US Marines fight for the volcanic island over 36 days of intense combat.
Of the 21,000 Japanese defenders of Iwo Jima, only 216 were taken prisoner. The island was needed for emergency landing strips for B-29s bombing Japan — over 2,400 bomber crews made emergency landings there before the war ended.
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