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Battle of Iwo Jima

Name: Battle of Iwo Jima
Start: 1945-02-08
Location: Iwo Jima, Japan

Battle of Iwo Jima was a battle fought on 8 February 1945 at Iwo Jima, in what is now Japan; it lasted 46 days. It was part of Q709352. The recorded result: American victory. Recorded strength: 110,000 (all branches); 500+ ships against 20,933; (13,586 Army, 7,347 Navy).

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Fought8 February 1945lasted 46 days

WhereIwo Jima, Japan24.780N, 141.320E

OutcomeAmerican victory

BelligerentsUnited StatesagainstJapan

Part ofQ709352

Record

Date	8 February 1945 to 26 March 1945
Place	Iwo Jima, Japan 24.780N, 141.320E
Kind	Battle, interwar and Second World War
Strength	110,000 (all branches); 500+ ships	20,933; (13,586 Army, 7,347 Navy)
Casualties and losses	Main battle phase: 6,821 dead; 19,217 wounded; 2 captured; 2,648 fatigued; 44 tanks destroyed
Commanders	Raymond A. Spruance Marc Mitscher William H. P. Blandy Holland Smith Harry Schmidt (USMC) Graves B. Erskine	Tadamichi Kuribayashi Takeichi Nishi

The recorded site, with the nearest other engagements in the atlas. Present-day coastlines, rivers and borders; towns from Natural Earth.

The ground today

Relief of the ground around the site of Battle of Iwo Jima — Relief within about 10.0 km of the site, contours every 10 m. Copernicus DEM GLO-30, ESA.

Satellite view of the site of Battle of Iwo Jima today — The same ground from Sentinel-2 on 2025-04-25. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025.

The recorded site stands at about 106 m; within 10.0 km the ground runs from -5 to 162 m, 167 m of relief, hilly country.

Elevation from the Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (ESA, Airbus); land cover from ESA WorldCover 2021 (CC BY 4.0), within about 5 km of the recorded site. Computed, not recorded.

Nearest engagements

Battle for Outpost Vegas 1953, 0.5 km NW
Battle of Sagami Bay 1945, 1095 km N
Siege of Shimoda 1590, 1124 km N
Second Siege of Takatenjin 1581, 1147 km N
First Siege of Takatenjin 1574, 1147 km N

Elsewhere in 1945

Combat data (CDB90)

	Attacker: US 3RD MAR DIV(+)	Defender: JAP CHICHI JIMA DEFENSE FORCE
Strength	32,000	2,685
Casualties	3,885 (12.1%)	2,685 (100.0%)
Mission accomplishment, 1 to 10	8	4
Outcome	attacker won
Duration	2 days
Front width	1.8 km	1.8 km
Attacker advanced	1.2 km

From the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency Database of Battles (CDB90, battle 520), public domain, in the CC0 tidy edition by Jeffrey B. Arnold. Figures are the database's estimates, compiled in 1990 from published histories, and may differ from the Wikipedia infobox above.

Battle of Iwo Jima is one of 2,997 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 481 in present-day Japan.

Sources

Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q180182, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Battle of Iwo Jima, revision 1382417357, read 2026-11-14, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.