The US Pacific Campaign - How the US Island Hopped to Iwo Jima

The Operations Room presents our brand new channel, The Intel Report. Please subscribe and spread the word! After the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the critical naval victory at The Battle of Midway, the US conducts a hard fought island hopping campaign across the South Pacific towards Japan. In February 1945, US Marines will storm the beaches of Iwo Jima. Here we will explore the brutal island hopping campaign, and lessons learned and not learned before the ferocious Battle of Iwo Jima. Bibliography Asada, Sadao. From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Budge, Kent. “Koga Mineichi (1885-1944).” The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: Koga Mineichi, n.d. Accessed September 2022. Clark, George B. The Six Marine Divisions in the Pacific: Every Campaign of World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin, 2016. Leckie, Robert. Challenge for the Pacifi