1) US occupied island until 1968 2) Battle site of 1945 3) Battleground of 1945 4) Commodore 64 game 5) Flags of our fathers setting 6) Island of a 1945 battle 7) Island of Tokyo 8) Japanese island in 1945 news 9) John Wayne war film locale 10) Literally sulfur island 11) Mount Suribachi setting 12) Pacific battle site in wwii
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==Name== It was discovered by Spanish sailor Bernardo de la Torre who named it Sufre Island, after the old Spanish term for sulphur (azufre in modern Spanish). At that time Iwo Jima and other islands were the limit between the Spanish, English and Portuguese Empires in the far East. In 1779, the island was charted as Sulphur Island, the literal tr...
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island that is part of the Volcano Islands archipelago, Japan. It lies in the western Pacific at a point about 760 miles (1,220 km) south-southeast ...
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The USS Iwo Jima is an American Iwo Jima Class amphibious assault ship of 11000 tons light displacement launched in 1960. The USS Iwo Jima is powered by two Combustion Engineering boilers providing a top speed of 23 knots and carries a crew of 686 including 48 officers plus 1746 troops and 1500 tons of aviation fuel and twenty CH-46D/E Sea Knight o...
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Largest of the three Japanese Volcano Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, 1,222 km/760 mi south of Tokyo; area 22 sq km/9 sq mi. Annexed by Japan in 1891, Iwo Jima, also known as Naka Iojima, was captured by the USA in 1945 after fierce fighting. It was returned to Japan in 1968
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one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968.
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