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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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    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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    atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in the final stages of the Pacific War. Taken by Joe Rosenthal of the Associated Press on February...
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  • 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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  • film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion piece to Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, which...
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    USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the lead ship of her class and type and the first amphibious assault ship to be designed and built from the keel up as a dedicated...
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    On February 19, 1945, men of the United States Marine Corps invaded the island of Iwo Jima, part of the Volcano Islands chain, in the North Pacific. This...
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    USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) (landing helicopter dock) is a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy. The ship was named for the Battle of Iwo...
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    The Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ships of the United States Navy were the first amphibious assault ships designed and built as dedicated helicopter...
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  • Three ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Iwo Jima, in memory of the Battle of Iwo Jima. USS Iwo Jima (CV-46) was to be a Essex-class...
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    Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration presented by the United States government to a member of its armed forces. The Battle of Iwo Jima took...
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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...
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    Tadamichi Kuribayashi (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    officer of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff. He is best known for having been the commander of the Japanese garrison at the battle of Iwo Jima. Even...
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    The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national memorial located in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia. The...
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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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  • raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of that event on their lives. Taken from the American viewpoint of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the film is a...
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    Franklin Sousley (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the six marines who raised the second of two U.S. flags on top of Mount Suribachi on...
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    Naval Base Iwo Jima was a naval base built by United States Navy on the Japanese Volcano Island of Iwo Jima during and after the Battle of Iwo Jima, that started...
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  • In anticipation of the Battle of Iwo Jima, Lieutenant General Tadamichi Kuribayashi prepared a defense that broke with Japanese military doctrine. Rather...
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    Harold Keller (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    During the Battle of Iwo Jima, he was a member of the patrol that captured the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February...
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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...
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    Volcano Islands (redirect from Iwo Islands)
    Iwo Jima (硫黄島, Iō-jima / Iō-tō, literally Sulphur Island), 20.60 square kilometres (7.95 sq mi), 166 metres (545 ft) (Suribachi-yama) Minami Iwo Jima...
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    5th Marine Division (United States) (category Divisions of the United States Marine Corps)
    action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945 where it sustained the highest number of casualties of the three Marine divisions of the V Amphibious Corps...
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    Joe Rosenthal (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs of the war, and was replicated...
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    Ira Hayes (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    Iwo Jima campaigns in the Pacific War. Hayes was generally known as one of the six men who appeared in the iconic photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima...
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    Takeichi Nishi (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    the end of the Second World War he commanded the 26th Tank Regiment during the Battle of Iwo Jima and was killed in action during the defense of the island...
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    of Iwo Jima is a 1945 Kodachrome color short war film produced by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. It documents the Battle of Iwo...
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    John Basilone (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    posthumously for extraordinary heroism during the Battle of Iwo Jima. He was the only enlisted Marine to receive both of these decorations in World War II. He enlisted...
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    Michael Strank (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    Corps sergeant who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the Marines who raised the second U.S. flag on Mount...
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    Volcano and Ryukyu Islands campaign (category Campaigns, operations and battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    groups. The two main land battles in the campaign were the Battle of Iwo Jima (16 February to 26 March 1945) and the Battle of Okinawa (1 April to 21 June...
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