"As the European theater ground towards its inevitable close, the Americans made enormous headway in the Pacific. With island after island falling before their advance, attack on the Japanese home islands seems within their grasp. With the fall of Saipan, Tokyo is now within bomber range, but the Japanese have tenaciously denied air superiority with their interceptors on Iwo Jima. To enable aerial strikes against the Japanese Islands, the Japanese airbase on Iwo Jima must be taken."
 
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Primary Objectives
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• Capture and hold the southwest Japanese airfield
• Capture and hold the middle Japanese airfield
• Capture and hold the northeast Japanese airfield

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Secondary Objectives
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• Destroy all Japanese forces

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Special Operations
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USA - Schmidt's Forces

• Atomic Bomb
• Economic Aid
• Assembly Line
• Corps Reorganization

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Walkthrough
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Deploy a Corps HQ from one of your battleships right off the bat. Have it set up as close to the water as possible so that the enemy won't automatically attack it. When it deploys, your visual radius will increas by a lot. Use your battleships to blast the infantry units next to the bunkers, then start pounding the bunkers one by one, finishing them off with your infantry.
 
Start building your base as fast as you can. Get your Infantry Corps HQ out as soon as possible, and attach as many of your infantry units to it as you can. Make these units into a group and have them stand on the east side of your base, which is where you're most likely to get attacked from first. Build the rest of your base as fast as possible, concentrating on getting the capacity to build nine units of Artillery Tanks.
 
When you get the first three units built, start using hit and run tactics on the base to the west. It's fairly small, and the earlier you destroy it, the less difficult it will be to destroy. Once more and more of your Artillery Tank units get built, use three of them to defend the west side of your base, then take the other six and form a group.
 
Your first target should be the base to the east. You'll have to use many, many hit and run trips to even put a dent in the amount of infantry units they have over there, so be prepared to use the retreat command a lot. Once you've wiped out that area, take your tanks north and work on destroying the forces around that airfield.
 
When you take it, let your tanks sit there to heal. Once they're done, head west to the next airfield. If you can manage to take it, that's great, but there's a large enemy base to the north that will most likely cause you trouble (specifically by retaking the eastern airfield as soon as you move away from it). Once you clear out the initial forces around the central airfield, you should concentrate on eliminating the northern base area.
 
Once you've done that, you'll need to wipe out the remaining base around the western airfield. Don't worry about losing the other two in the process, since you'll be able to take them right back. Once you have complete control of the western airfield, send your spare three units of Artillery Tanks over there to defend it, then retake the central airfield. Once you have control of it, leave half of your tanks there to defend it, then take the third airfield with the other half. Once you control the three airfields, the mission is over.