Show 43 IWO 29 japs killed on for every yank W MW mav vaa 9 approximately japanese were killed in the american invasion of atoll in the marshall islands only yanks met death in the same campaign united states marine and army wounded totaled 1148 and 82 men were reported missing top assault boats and alligators are shown as they reached the leach beach at bringing men and equipment of the seventh division it was this division which captured and adjacent islets bottom A marine searches through the wreckage after the unprecedented naval bombardment which preceded the first american occupation of land held by japan before the war |