Suribachi

American  

[soor-uh-bah-chee] / ˌsʊər əˈbɑ tʃi /

noun

1. an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.

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Suribachi British  

/ ˌsʊərɪˈbɑːtʃɪ /

noun

1. a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II

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Example Sentences

The Japanese tried this on Iwo Jima, and the Stars and Stripes ended up flying over Mount Suribachi.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The fight for Iwo Jima gained worldwide attention from AP photographer Joe Rosenthal’s iconic image of the U.S. flag-raising on Mount Suribachi.

From Washington Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Iwo Jima was where Marines planted the American flag on Mount Suribachi, a moment captured in one of the most iconic war photographs in history.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2022

Some won Pulitzer Prizes, like Ut’s napalm girl, like Eddie Adam’s breathtaking photo of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner, like Joe Rosenthal’s tableau of Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2022

Two hours after Mount Suribachi was captured, an Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal decided to go up to the top of the mountain, even though everyone told him he was too late.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac