Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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wld -- war is a horrible business -- we did not start this war

2/19/1945 About 60,000 [75,000] US marines went ashore at Iwo Jima, an 8-sq. mile island of rock, volcanic ash and black sand. During World War II, some 30,000 U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima, where they began a month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces. The 36-day battle took the lives of 7,000 Americans and about 20,000 of 22,000 Japanese defenders

3/10/1945 Some 300 American B-29s bombed Tokyo at night with almost 2,000 tons of incendiaries killing 100,000
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On this day in 1945
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4/11/1945 The Americans liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Some 250,000 prisoners passed through the camp and 50,000 are known to have died there.