On the closing day of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, March 26, 1945, a Japanese soldier was killed by American troops, and the gruesome corpse of a Japanese soldier fell in front of an American military tent.

 　　　On the closing day of the Battle of Iwo Jima in the Pacific War, March 26, 1945, a Japanese soldier was killed by American troops and his gruesome corpse fell in front of an American tent. 95% of the 20,933 Japanese garrison troops in the Battle of Iwo Jima, which ended February 19 to March 26, 1945, were killed or missing in action. 19,900 were killed in action or were missing in action. Meanwhile, the U.S. forces suffered a total of 28,686 casualties, including 6,821 killed in action and 21,865 wounded in battle. This was a rare occurrence in the latter stages of the Pacific War, when the actual number of U.S. casualties (total of deaths, wounds, etc.) exceeded that of the Japanese forces.

　　In the early morning hours of March 26, 1945, in a final attack, Japanese forces were silently attacked near the tents of American 21st Fighter Group officers on Iwo Jima in the Ogasawara Islands, not by the Japanese in a banzai attack. Soon, members of the U.S. Army's Signal Air Alert Squadron, Black Air Force, Night Fighter Squadron, Naval Construction Battalion, Marine Pioneer Force, and many other units in the vicinity joined the attack. It is estimated that about 300 Japanese soldiers, the remnants of all three units, participated in the assault, attacking various areas simultaneously in silent rather than banzai attacks. With flamethrowers, Tommy guns, and hand grenades, the U.S. Marines closed in behind the Japanese troops, annihilating the last Japanese soldiers. The scene left behind showed the devastation of the remnants.

　　Official U.S. Marine Corps records reported that Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi and other high-ranking officers led the final Japanese attack on March 26. This attack was not a banzai assault, but an excellent plan aimed at creating maximum confusion and destruction. At 5:15 a.m., 200-300 Japanese soldiers descended from the north along the western side of the island and attacked Marine and Army outposts near the western shore. The chaotic battle lasted three hours, and the command post of the 7th Fighter Group suffered heavy casualties, but it recovered from the confusion and launched a counterattack, and the 5th Engineer Battalion hastily formed a battle line to hold off the enemy attack. The Japanese troops were well armed with both Japanese and American weapons, and 40 of them were carrying military swords, indicating a high percentage of high-ranking officers, but a review of the bodies and documents failed to locate Kuribayashi.