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 Control of Iwo Jima is critical to our victory.  The USA bombers cannot make it to our homeland without stopping along the way, and they want to use Iwo Jima as their refueling station.   If we let them take this island they will be able to bomb our homeland, which we cannot allow.  They have been shelling us for days and we have abandoned most of the island to hide underground. Control of Iwo Jima is critical to our victory.  The USA bombers cannot make it to our homeland without stopping along the way, and they want to use Iwo Jima as their refueling station.   If we let them take this island they will be able to bomb our homeland, which we cannot allow.  They have been shelling us for days and we have abandoned most of the island to hide underground.
  
-====== Historical Background ====== 
-(thanks Wikipedia) 
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-The Battle of Iwo Jima (1945), was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, along with its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.  The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 mi) of underground tunnels. 
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-The 36-day (Iwo Jima) assault resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties, including 6,800 dead.  Of the 22,060 Japanese soldiers entrenched on the island, 18,844 died either from fighting or by ritual suicide. Only 216 were captured during the course of battle. After Iwo Jima, it was estimated there were no more than 300 Japanese left alive in the island's warren of caves and tunnels. In fact, there were close to 3,000. The Japanese bushido code of honor, coupled with effective propaganda which portrayed American G.I.s as ruthless animals, prevented surrender for many Japanese soldiers. Those who could not bring themselves to commit suicide hid in the caves during the day and came out at night to prowl for provisions. Some did eventually surrender and were surprised that the Americans often received them with compassion, offering water, cigarettes, or coffee. The last of these holdouts on the island, two of Lieutenant Toshihiko Ohno's men, Yamakage Kufuku and Matsudo Linsoki, lasted four years without being caught and finally surrendered on 6 January 1949. 
  
 ====== Playing the Game ====== ====== Playing the Game ======
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 Build slowly  and use your superior position and border modifiers to your advantage, try to force USA to attack across topo (orange) lines.   Eventually you need to get down and start taking marine landing zones, or the USA will out produce you.  Make sure you get some units out of your airports or you will have no where to place units you earn.  But don't leave them too empty or USA will try to take them from you.  North airport is fairly easy to defend from one topo level down, so you can then leave it relatively empty in order to place units there every turn. Build slowly  and use your superior position and border modifiers to your advantage, try to force USA to attack across topo (orange) lines.   Eventually you need to get down and start taking marine landing zones, or the USA will out produce you.  Make sure you get some units out of your airports or you will have no where to place units you earn.  But don't leave them too empty or USA will try to take them from you.  North airport is fairly easy to defend from one topo level down, so you can then leave it relatively empty in order to place units there every turn.
  
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 +====== Historical Background ======
 +(thanks Wikipedia)
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 +The Battle of Iwo Jima (1945), was a major battle in which the United States Armed Forces fought for and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Empire. The American invasion had the goal of capturing the entire island, along with its three airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands. This five-week battle comprised some of the fiercest and bloodiest fighting of the War in the Pacific of World War II.  The Imperial Japanese Army positions on the island were heavily fortified, with a dense network of bunkers, hidden artillery positions, and 18 km (11 mi) of underground tunnels.
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 +The 36-day (Iwo Jima) assault resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties, including 6,800 dead.  Of the 22,060 Japanese soldiers entrenched on the island, 18,844 died either from fighting or by ritual suicide. Only 216 were captured during the course of battle. After Iwo Jima, it was estimated there were no more than 300 Japanese left alive in the island's warren of caves and tunnels. In fact, there were close to 3,000. The Japanese bushido code of honor, coupled with effective propaganda which portrayed American G.I.s as ruthless animals, prevented surrender for many Japanese soldiers. Those who could not bring themselves to commit suicide hid in the caves during the day and came out at night to prowl for provisions. Some did eventually surrender and were surprised that the Americans often received them with compassion, offering water, cigarettes, or coffee. The last of these holdouts on the island, two of Lieutenant Toshihiko Ohno's men, Yamakage Kufuku and Matsudo Linsoki, lasted four years without being caught and finally surrendered on 6 January 1949.
  
 ====== Photograph Controversy ====== ====== Photograph Controversy ======
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