Iwo Jima and Okinawa
- -Americans could fly to these islands and return to bomb Tokyo
- men fought to the death and very few prisoners
- multiple kamikaze attacks
- fire bombs of Tokyo after islands were taken by Americansfirst raid dropped heavy bombs to destroy infrastructuresecond raid light everything on firethird raid dropped shrapnel bombs to prevent firefighters from putting out the fireskilled over 100 000 Japanese civilians
- led Americans to realize it would take 1 million American casualties to overtake Japan
Summery
The americans heavily bomb these two Islands killing hundreds of thousands of people.