• Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film starring John Wayne that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World...
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    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki) is an iconic photograph of six United States Marines raising the U.S. flag...
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    Iwo Jima, officially romanized and pronounced Iōtō (硫(い)黄(おう)島(とう), literally: "Sulfur Island"), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south...
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    Mount Suribachi (category Mountains of Tokyo)
    (554 ft)-high mountain on the southwest end of Iwo Jima in the northwest Pacific Ocean under the administration of Ogasawara Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis...
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    Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. During the battle, he was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised...
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    John Agar (category United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II)
    John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as Tarantula...
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    Ira Hayes (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    portrayed himself raising the flag in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima, starring John Wayne. He was the subject of an article by journalist William Bradford Huie...
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    Willing, The Gallant Legion, The Younger Brothers, Corvette K-225, Sands of Iwo Jima, Yes Sir, That's My Baby, Our Hearts Were Young Gay (and its sequel...
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    when Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) was released. His footprints at Grauman's Chinese theater in Hollywood were laid in concrete that contained sand from Iwo Jima...
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    The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed...
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    (1942), The Fighting Seabees (1944), They Were Expendable (1945), and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor...
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  • Look up Iwo Jima in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iwo Jima may refer to: Iwo Jima, a volcanic island in Japan's Ogasawara Islands chain, now officially...
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    Rene Gagnon (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    corporal who participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Gagnon was generally known as being one of the Marines who raised the second U.S...
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    Richard Jaeckel (category American military personnel of World War II)
    1946, then starred in two of the most remembered war films of 1949: Battleground and Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne. One of Jaeckel's shortest film roles...
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    Martin Milner (category American people of Polish-Jewish descent)
    immediately landed a minor role in the film Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne. Milner attended the University of Southern California where he studied theater...
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  • general. "The Sands of Iwo Jima" recounts Hood's experiences with his great uncle while growing up in North Alabama. Questioning the veracity of the movie...
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    Man of the Plains (1949) - Travers' Secretary (uncredited) Border Incident (1949) - Norson - Immigration Officer (uncredited) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)...
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    Logan Bride of Vengeance (1949) - Prisoner (uncredited) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) - Sir Galahad Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Pfc...
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    as tough policemen or cowboys, Haggerty appeared in films such as Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), The Asphalt Jungle (1951), Angels in the Outfield (1951) and...
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  • earned their reputation and world's respect -- "the shores of Tripoli" and the "sands of Iwo Jima." The scroll at the bottom stating "Fleet Marine Force"...
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    Ted White (stuntman) (category United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II)
    for the University of Oklahoma, then pursued a stuntman/acting career. In Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), White was approached because of his Marine Corps background...
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    Forrest Tucker (category United States Army personnel of World War II)
    Jane Russell; it was sold to RKO. Tucker had a role in Republic's Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), as PFC Thomas, a Marine with a score to settle with John Wayne's...
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  • (who had produced Sands of Iwo Jima) and starring John Wayne and Robert Ryan. The movie details the exploits and personal battles of United States Marine...
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    an American actor and film producer. He was best known as the eldest son of the actor John Wayne. Michael Anthony Morrison was born in Los Angeles, California...
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  • of his repetitive screen roles as a paternal figure, [Wayne] said the movie was based on a formula that worked in Goodbye Mr. Chips and Sands of Iwo Jima...
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  • Harold G. Schrier (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    second flag. In 1949, Schrier appeared as himself in the war movie "Sands of Iwo Jima", where he hands the American flag to actor John Wayne (as Sergeant...
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    pictures, some of which were highly acclaimed, such as the 1949 box office hit, Sands of Iwo Jima. He directed his last movie in 1961. Being one of the last...
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    (uncredited) Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) - Tall Girl (uncredited) Key to the City (1950) - Miss Construction (uncredited) Let's Go Navy! (1951) - Kitten Flame of Araby...
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  • directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr and Victor Mature Sands of Iwo Jima, directed by Allan Dwan, starring John Wayne The Secret Garden, starring...
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    Adele Mara (category American people of Spanish descent)
    appeared in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch starring John Wayne, Angel in Exile (leading lady), Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne in which she was...
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