Mosy of the footage shown here was taken after the main battle at Iwo Jima. Most of the american soldiers here was not the main battle force that took part at Iwo jima but the security force in charge to maintain the airport used to attack Japan and also in charge to "pacify" the remaining of the japanese soldiers who survived the Iwo Jima battle and now were trying to survive with barely anything they got after the main battle (food, water, etc). It was these american security force who deployed japanese american soldiers as interpreters to interrogate the japanese prisioners. These japanese soldiers were lucky that they got captured by this american "security force" since the main american forces were quite brutal with the japanese POW. It was quite common for the americans to kill, mutilate the dead corpse and make war thopies with the human parts they stole.
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For anyoone wondering about the japanese american soldiers. The USA did deployed japanese american soldiers (they even had a racist slang for them) at the east front. They were deployed as translators in order to communicate and interrogate info out of the japanese soldiers. They weren't deployed to fight the japanese though some of them did end up fighting the japanese and even some of them met and killed old japanese friends they had during their childhood before they moved to live to the USA. In combat, they were usefull to spy, eardrop the japanese soldiers' conversations and even confuse the japanese soldiee during combat by shouting back false orders in japanese during their attacks.