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Tank Defense of Iwo Jima

Japan · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Takeichi Nishi19 February 1945

Iwo Jima · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Nishi commands the Twenty-Sixth Tank Regiment, whose vehicles are largely employed as fortified firing positions on Iwo Jima.

Names involved

Takeichi Nishi

Provenance

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