• Letters from Iwo Jima (硫黄島からの手紙, Iōjima Kara no Tegami) is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring...
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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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    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 atop...
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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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  • Iwo Jima, the film is a companion piece to Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, which depicts the same battle from the Japanese viewpoint; the two films...
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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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    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 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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  • States Marine Corps and was one of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima. The film stars Tony Curtis as Hayes. It was directed by Delbert Mann. Jim Sorenson...
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    Franklin Sousley (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    was a United States Marine who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was one of the six marines who raised the second of...
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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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    Joe Rosenthal (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, taken during the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima. His picture became one of the best-known photographs...
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    Bill Genaust (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Genaust was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps during the Pacific...
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    Rene Gagnon (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    United States Marine Corps corporal who participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Gagnon was generally known as being one of the Marines...
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    extraordinary heroism while serving with the Marines during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. During the battle, he was a member of the patrol that...
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    Harold Keller (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    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 23...
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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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    Harold Schultz (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. 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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    Suribachiyama) is a 169-metre (554 ft)-high mountain on the southwest end of Iwo Jima in the northwest Pacific Ocean under the administration of Ogasawara Subprefecture...
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    Tadamichi Kuribayashi (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    for having been the commander of the Japanese garrison at the battle of Iwo Jima. Even before the battle, General Kuribayashi insisted upon sharing the...
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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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  • Flags of Our Fathers (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    States Marines, who were made famous by Joe Rosenthal’s Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima photograph. The story follows the lives of Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hamilton...
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    Michael Strank (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    States Marine 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...
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    Harlon Block (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    States Marine Corps corporal who was killed in action during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps...
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    Glamour Gal (category Battle of Iwo Jima films)
    approaching their destination, Iwo Jima, described as "some rock in between the devil and the Dutch East Indies". The rest of the film is devoted to authentic...
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  • Henry Oliver Hansen (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. He was a member of the patrol that captured Mount Suribachi, where he helped raise the first U.S. flag on Iwo Jima on February...
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    Takeichi Nishi (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    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. Nishi was born...
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    Kyle Eastwood (category American film score composers)
    partner Michael Stevens for a 2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Original Score (Letters from Iwo Jima). In 2014 Eastwood and Matt McGuire contributed...
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  • Chandler W. Johnson (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    during the battle of Iwo Jima, leading his battalion in capturing Mount Suribachi which later led to the flag being raised over Iwo Jima. He was killed in...
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  • Charles W. Lindberg (category Battle of Iwo Jima)
    fought in three island campaigns during World War II. During the Battle of Iwo Jima, he was a member of the patrol which captured the top of Mount Suribachi...
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