Can’t get it to open on my iPhone without subscribing.

But IIRC the article does state we weren’t expecting that level of resistance going in, believing most of the Japanese forces were still on Chichi Jima (??), an island we did skip.

Hindsight.


"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744