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** Battle of Iwo Jima: A group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
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** Twentieth Air Force B-29s bomb Iwo Jima.
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** U. S. Navy surface ships conduct a two-day pre-invasion bombardment of Iwo Jima.
** Low on fuel after a raid on Japan, a B-29 Superfortress lands on Iwo Jima, the first of about 2, 400 B-29s to do so before World War II ends in August.
** Japanese aircraft make their last raid on Iwo Jima.
** The United States declares the Iwo Jima operation " completed.
** Accompanying B-29 Superfortresses, P-51 Mustangs of the U. S. Army Air Forces 15th, 21st, and 506th Fighter Groups based on Iwo Jima become the first Allied fighters to escort bombers all the way to Tokyo, Japan, and back.
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