[Timocrat]

The political general who ran this campaign lost more men at D-Day than MacArthur lost retaking the entire south Pacific.

Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.

[ricmc2175]

That was not MacArthur's, remember there was divided command between the Navy and the Army in the Pacific. Each had their zones of responsibility. I do note however that you do not refute the “political” charge. Holding back Patton so the Soviets could take Eastern Europe was a political, not a military decision. As was Sicily and holding Patton in reserve in England on D-Day and . . . .

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Iwo Jima was not under MacArthur but under Nimitz.

[ScottinVA]

Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.

And we lost more than 12,500 during Operation Iceberg, the capture of Okinawa.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

WE should never have given Iwo back to the Japanese. We paid too high a price for it.

[ansel12]

The United States Army lost the same amount of men fighting in the Pacific, as the Navy and Marines lost, in the entire war combined.

[truth_seeker]

“Hardly. The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.”

And the allies lost over 12,000 dead taking Okinawa.

[zeestephen]

Re: “The Marines alone lost 7,000 men taking Iwo Jima.”

True, but the other comment specified the “south Pacific.”

Iwo Jima is 24.5 degrees north of the equator.