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    North Iwo Jima (Japanese: 北硫黄島, Kita Iwōjima, "North Sulfur Island"), now officially North or Kita Iōtō (written with the same characters) and previously...
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    Volcano Islands (redirect from Iwo Islands)
    island of Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands lies about 1,240 kilometres (670 nmi; 771 mi) southeast of Miyazaki. The Volcano Islands are: Kita Iwo Jima (北硫黄島...
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    Iwo Jima, now officially romanized Iōtō (硫黄島, "Sulfur Island"), is one of the Japanese Volcano Islands, which lie south of the Bonin Islands and together...
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    Hahajima Rettō Kazan Rettō (Volcano Islands) Kita Iwo Jima (North Iwo Jima) Iwo Jima Minami Iwo Jima (South Iwo Jima) Nishinoshima Okinotorishima Minamitorishima...
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    Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (Japanese: 硫黄島の星条旗, Hepburn: Iōtō no Seijōki, lit. 'The Stars and Stripes on Iōtō') is an iconic photograph of six United...
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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...
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    Kazan Rettō (Volcano Islands) Nishinoshima Kita Iwo Jima (North Iwo Jima) Iwo Jima Minami Iwo Jima (South Iwo Jima) Minami Torishima (Marcus Island) Enoshima...
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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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    South Iwo Jima (南硫黄島, Minami-Iōtō, "South Sulfur Island"), officially Minami or South Iōtō (written with the same characters) since 18 June 2007 and also...
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    (Iōtō), which includes all of the Volcano Islands Both villages of Kita Iwo Jima became part of the newly created Iwojima municipality in 1940: Ishinomura...
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    include, from north to south, Chichi-jima, Nishinoshima, Haha-jima, Kita Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and Minami Iwo Jima. Ogasawara also administers two tiny...
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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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    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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    Islands. Iwo Jima is the largest of the Volcano Islands. The others are Kita Iwo Jima, Minami Iwo Jima, and Nishinoshima. Iwo Jima and Kita Iwo Jima are inhabited...
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    her men (and a motor whaleboat) overboard. On 20 July, she bombarded Kita-Iwō-jima, and on 7 August, she boarded and searched a Japanese hospital ship...
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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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    Chichijima (redirect from Chichi Jima)
    Bonin or Ogasawara Islands. Chichijima is about 240 km (150 mi) north of Iwo Jima. 23.5 km2 (9.1 sq mi) in size, the island is home to about 2,120 people...
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    Yonaguni Senkaku Islands (7 km²) Uotsurijima, Kuba Jima, Taisho Jima, Kita Kojima, Minami Kojima, Oki-no-Kita-Iwa, Oki-no-Minami-Iwa, Tobise Zhoushan Archipelago...
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    Hahajima (redirect from Haha Jima)
    Seventh Air Force bombers to attack installations on the island as well as Iwo Jima. Four days later there was another attack by Fleet Air Wing One. Then on...
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    settlements on the Volcano Islands and the Self-Defense Force post on Iwo Jima. The seat of government is Chichijima. Because of the Bonins' isolation...
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    bottom off Chichi Jima Retto. Three days later she sank the cargo ship Tokai Maru No. 4 and a landing craft transport off Kita, Iwo Jima. Changing patrol...
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    1,267 km (684 nmi; 787 mi) east of the closest Japanese island, South Iwo Jima of the Volcano Islands, and nearly on a straight line between mainland...
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    Hahajima, the two permanent settlements in the islands. (The SDF base on Iwo Jima is supported separately, although still notionally part of the subprefecture...
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    Kitakyushu (redirect from Kita-Kyushu)
    Devil's Right Hand Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ninja, Dirty Hearts, Letters from Iwo Jima and Samurai Hustle (real name: Yun Yu-gu, Hangul: 윤유구) Junichi Haruta,...
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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 from...
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    southeast of Okidaitōjima and 567 km (352 mi) west-southwest of South Iwo Jima in the Bonin Islands or 1,740 km (1,080 mi) south of Tokyo, Japan. Okinotorishima...
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    the Bonin segment, where the extinct volcanic islands of Minami Iwo Jima and Kita Iwo Jima rise to almost 1000 m above sealevel. The bathymetric high associated...
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    Nakōdo-jima or Nakadachi-jima (媒島, lit. 'Matchmaker Island'); Kita-no-jima (北の島 or 北島, lit. 'Northern Island'); Mae-jima – formerly the Ears; Chichi-jima Group...
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    crashed on the remote and rugged island of Kita Iwo Jima. HS-14 deployed two Seahawks within three hours to Iwo Jima to conduct search and recovery operations...
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  • (沢) for a swamp; e.g., Mizusawa, Iwate shima or -jima (島) or tō for an island; e.g., Ie-shima, Iwo Jima, Okinawa Honto tani or -dani (谷) for a valley; e...
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