Operation Details

Jocko

'Jocko' was the informal designation of a US naval attack against the Japanese positions on Iwo Jima island (23/24 June 1944).

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On 23 June Rear Admiral Joseph J. Clark’s Task Group 58.1 departed the island of Saipan in the Mariana islands group to attack Iwo Jima, and on the following day re-formed and headed to Eniwetok atoll.

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