iwo jima in English

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a small volcanic island, the largest of the Volcano Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, 760 miles (1,222 km) south of Tokyo. During World War II, it was a heavily fortified site of a Japanese airbase, and its attack and capture in 1944–45 was one of the most severe US campaigns. It was returned to Japan in 1968.

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1. See Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

2. Forrest then recurved south-southeast of Iwo Jima.

3. 30,000 marines landed on the beaches of Iwo Jima.

4. Lola shows us her own rendition of Iwo Jima.

5. At 30 , Marines disembarked toward the shores of Iwo Jima.

6. Three died before the 20 battle at Iwo Jima was over.

7. The carrier force finished the month of February with strikes against Iwo Jima.

8. In all, 2,251 B-29 landings on Iwo Jima were recorded during the war.

9. The conquest of Iwo Jima, shown from an American view in "Flags of our Fathers" and from the Japanese side in "Letters from Iwo Jima", was the most brutal and pointless of the second world war.

10. The photographer who captured World War II servicemen raising the American flag over Iwo Jima has died.

11. She returned to Iwo Jima in mid-March for radar picket and air-sea rescue duty.

12. The discovery of his letters home in a cave on Iwo Jima sparked Mr Eastwood's interest.

13. The photographer who captured World War II servicemen raising American flag over Iwo Jima has died.

14. Moskin records that 1,191 fighter escorts and 3,081 strike sorties were flown from Iwo Jima against Japan.

15. The famous sculpture of the Marines struggling to raise the flag on Iwo Jima serves as a backdrop.

16. On the fourth day of battle, Marines fought to the top of Mount Suribachi, the tallest mountain on Iwo Jima.

17. Immediately after the strikes, the task force raced to the Bonin Islands to support the landings on Iwo Jima.

18. One such war-time service was held on the black sands of Iwo Jima more than sixty years ago.

19. Clearing Iwo Jima on 5 March, Wadsworth headed for the Philippines, arriving at Dulag anchorage, in Leyte Gulf, on the 9th.

20. Then, on the 16th, headed north for Iwo Jima, whence she patrolled on air/sea rescue station until 2 November.

21. She conducted shore bombardment and night harassing fire off Iwo Jima until 6 March, when she got underway for the Philippines.

22. Steven Spielberg and Hanks executive-produced this ten-part mini-series about the Marines who fought from Okinawa to Iwo Jima.

23. She departed the United States in September 1954 and steamed to the Far East, visiting Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima en route.

24. STEVE EMBER: John Bradley was the last to die of the six men who raised the flag on Iwo Jima that day.

25. In the past few months Japan had suffered calamitous setbacks at the Battles of the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Iwo Jima.

26. Collect 5 IPCs per turn if Axis controls 5 of the 7 following islands. Midway, Wake, Marianas, Iwo Jima, Caroline, Solomon Islands and Guam.

27. Collect 5 IPC per turn if the Allies control 5 of the 7 following islands. Midway, Wake, Marianas, Iwo Jima, Caroline, Solomon Islands and Guam.

28. In the past few months Japan had suffered calamitous setbacks at the Battles of the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Iwo Jima. Sentencedict.com

29. On Feb. 19 during World War II, some 000 United States Marines landed on the Western Pacific island of Iwo Jima, where they encountered ferocious resistance from Japanese forces.

30. As the JMA issued their first advisory, the JTWC designated the system as Tropical Depression 09W while located about 280 km (175 mi) east-northeast of Iwo Jima.

31. The troops were using boats called LCVPs (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) - smaller versions of the drop-bow boats that would later storm beaches from Normandy to Iwo Jima.

32. Nearby, on an elevation just southeast of the station, an enormously large blockhouse was constructed which served as the headquarters of Colonel Chosaku Kaidō, who commanded all artillery on Iwo Jima.

33. Separately, he also promises to "examine every grain of sand" to repatriate the remains of 000 fallen Japanese soldiers who are still unaccounted for at the Pacific Island battleground of Iwo Jima.

34. To English-speaking audiences, he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

35. Part 8 of the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, includes part of the Battle of Iwo Jima from the point of view of John Basilone from the beginning of the invasion until his death later in the day.