The Way of the War pt8
Just a note about last chapter: ChiChi Jima was bombed many times during world war II but was never taken from the Japanese. One of the reasons there was no ground assault was no area for a landing field. It Was still a very strategic due to the large radio towers on the inland Mountains. They had a large anti aircraft battalion with gun emplacements all along the coast. They shot down a lot of American planes. There are at least three pilots still unaccounted for, and the Japanese Commandant was known to be cannibalistic. Our Ex President George H.W. Bush the youngest person to receive his wings as an air force pilot, was shot down during one of those raids. Luckily he was rescued by a Submarine. I have been to ChiChi Jima twice …