Bringin' the big guns! Traditional Geocache

You will be searching for a 5 foot PVC cache! This is located in an area where most of the muggles you see will be in vehicles. Please be stealthy when retrieving or replacing this cache because it will attract muggle attention if they see it! You DO NOT have to go past the locked gate to retrieve this even if your GPS tells you to. 

In February 1945, eight battleships, five heavy cruisers, three light cruisers and ten destroyers met near a small volcanic island just 650 miles from Tokyo. Iwo Jima was located on the bomber route between Tokyo and Saipan in the Mariana Islands.

The U.S. Navy's terrain rubber model shows Mt. Suribachi and the island's airfields. Japan was using the airfields for their bombing runs on the allies in Saipan. The allies wanted the airfields for their fighter escort planes and for refueling and repairing B-29 bombers. The 22,000 heavily fortified Japanese on Iwo Jima were willing to fight to the death from a maze of underground caves, bunkers and tunnels to stop the allies from taking Iwo Jima.

Sunrise on February 19, 1945, was greeted with the largest naval bombardment in history and the Battleship was there. NORTH CAROLINA pounded the island for four days then moved to her next assignment.

Congrats to BigD1976 for FTF honors!