Iwo Jima battle?

Question

is it true that during the battle of Iwo Jima, there were 3 times the population on Iwo Jima than on masachusets? i heard it was somthing like that, wats the real number?

Answer 1

hope this helps

http://www.iwo-jima.navy.mil/battle-history.htm

Answer 2

Iwo Jima had a radar station and fighter base on the flight paths of most of the B-29 raids on Japan. When it was captured, that strategically placed radar station and fighter base was gone. With Iwo Jima in United States hands, it turned out to be a very important emergency air base for battle damaged, short of fuel or mechanically malfunctioning B-29s to land. Hundreds of B-29s and thousands of air crew were saved who overwise would have ditched in the ocean. The fighter bases on Iwo Jima were very effective fighter bases for P-51s and P-47Ns to conduct escort missions for the B-29s and fly fighter sweeps over Japan

Answer 3

Their was no Civilian Population on the Island of Iwo Jima. The land was not a good place to live. It was the surface of the moon with plant life on it. You couldn't live on top of the island for their was no smooth ground. Most of the best land (based on the rest of the rock.) was used as an airfield. The land is a Japanese base thanks to a lot of smoothing out of the land and the land in the north is not good for anything.

Answer 4

If you're meaning Okinawa, you might be right.... Iwo Jima had no civilian population at the time of its invasion.

Answer 5

Population?? Are you taking about the troops form both sides there??? To give you an idea of what was there, the Marines lost 7,000 dead and the Japanese lost 30,000 all in one month. that was the total sum of the Japanese, but the Marine contingent was about 4 times their dead!