Marines Land at Iwo Jima: 30,000 Hit the Beach
About 30,000 United States Marines stormed ashore at Iwo Jima, triggering a brutal thirty-six-day campaign that secured a critical airbase for B-29 bombers. This strategic foothold allowed Allied aircraft to escort bombing raids over Japan and provided an emergency landing site for damaged planes returning from the mainland.
February 19, 1945
81 years ago
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What Else Happened on February 19
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Constantius II banned pagan worship in 356, but he couldn't ban the temples themselves. Too many. Too expensive to destroy. So Romans kept visiting them — not t…
Constantius II ordered every pagan temple in the Roman Empire shut in 356. Not destroyed — closed. The difference mattered. Priests couldn't perform sacrifices.…
el emperador Constancio II emite un decreto que cierra todos los templos paganos en el Imperio romano.
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érection du duché de Savoie par Sigismond Ier.
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