T80UD
Registered Member
Iwo Jima is 8 square miles which is roughly the same size as Kharg Island. During the invasion, what was supposed to be a few day battle turned into a 5 week campaign. 21,000 Imperial Japanese troops, mostly hidden IN the island, managed to inflict 26,000 US casualties.
Not quite, IWO Jima was so bloody because the Japanese defense was still relatively intact when the landings happened, also the Japanese turned every nook and cranny of the island into a fighting position while on kharg there is infrastructure that absolutely must not be touched.
Not to mention the sheer technological advancement.










