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In December 1944, a Marine on Hawaii opened a newspaper and saw a photograph of an island he had been attacking for weeks. He had never heard its name. Nobody in his battalion had ever seen it.
Four thousand miles away, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi had spent half a year making certain nobody could. He cleared Iwo Jima of civilians, moved his army underground, and built a fortress designed to be invisible from the air.
Yet by February 1945 the men of the 28th Marines had rehearsed the assault on a hillside chosen to match his ground — the right beaches, the right hill, the right direction of attack. The Japanese garrison never knew.
How the Americans knew what they should not have been able to know is one of the quietest, strangest intelligence stories of the Pacific war. And there is an exact point on that island where it stopped working.
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