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[Commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi]. A Japanese map of Iwo Jima, used for the defence of the island by the Imperial Japanese Army
February - March 1945
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[Commander Tadamichi Kuribayashi]. A Japanese map of Iwo Jima, used for the defence of the island by the Imperial Japanese Army
February - March 1945
February - March 1945
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Exhibited:
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York, 1995-2007
Provenance:
The War Museum
An extraordinary survival from this bloody conflict, the map for the defense of the island purportedly recovered from the cave of the Japanese Commander, unannotated but marked up with a number grid. General Kuribayashi's tactics for the defense of the island were both clever and robust, and he ordered his defenders to fight to the end. The Marines had expected to take Iwo Jima in 5 days but it took 36 days as the Japanese defense forces waged guerrilla warfare against the American invaders. He is immortalized in the Clint Eastwood movie Letters from Iwo Jima released in 2006.

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