• Look up Iwo or iwo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Iwo or IWO may refer to: Iwo Byczewski (born 1948), Polish diplomat Iwo Dölling (1923–2019), Swedish...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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...
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  • The Oluwo of Iwo is the traditional ruler of Iwo, a prominent city located in Osun State, Nigeria. Oba Adekola Telu Oba Adeyemi Oba Oganfenumodi Oba Ogunlaoye...
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    Central Field or Iwo Jima Air Base (IATA: IWO, ICAO: RJAW) is a former World War II airfield on Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands, located in the Central Pacific...
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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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  • 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 aircraft carrier...
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  • Iwo is a city in Osun State, Nigeria. The Iwo people, like all other people of the Yoruba kingdom, are said to have originated from Ile-Ife, where they...
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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....
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  • Flags of Our Fathers (film) (category Battle of Iwo Jima films)
    Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects...
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    The Iwo Kingdom is a traditional state based on the city of Iwo in Osun State, Nigeria. The Yoruba kingdom, whose ruler is titled "Oluwo of Iwo", was...
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  • Iwo, Osun in Nigeria has been known for its academic activities both western and Islamic. The city contains nine higher education institutions: two Functional...
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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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    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...
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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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  • The Iwo Jima rail or white-browed crake (Poliolimnas cinereus brevipes) was a rail native to the island of Iwo Jima. The last reported sightings were in...
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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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    Volcano Islands (redirect from Iwo Islands)
    The Volcano Islands (火山列島, Kazan Rettō) or Iwo Islands (硫黄列島, Iō-rettō) are a group of three Japanese-governed islands in Micronesia. They lie south of...
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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...
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  • Fritz "Iwo" Dölling (12 January 1923 – 22 April 2019) was a Swedish diplomat. Dölling was born on 12 January 1923 in Vaxholm, Sweden, the son of Major...
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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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  • Iwo Kaczmarski (born 16 April 2004) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Miedź Legnica, on loan from the Italian club Empoli...
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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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    Iho Eleru (redirect from Iwo Eleru Skull)
    Iho Eleru, formerly known as Iwo Eleru, is an archaeological site and rock shelter that features Later Stone Age artifacts from during the Late Pleistocene-Holocene...
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    cancelled. Of the nine still unfinished, six were completed, two (Reprisal and Iwo Jima) were scrapped, and Oriskany was taken in hand for modification to an...
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    Iwo Odrowąż (died 21 August 1229) was a medieval Polish humanist, statesman, and bishop. Iwo was very probably born in Końskie, son of Szaweł Odrowąż and...
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  • prefecture of Tokyo. Its administrative area covered the whole island of Iwo Jima (officially Iōtō since 2007), one of the Volcano Islands. It existed...
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