Iwo
Americannoun
noun
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Mr. Franklin’s image showed an act of collective effort in the midst of crisis—powerfully echoing Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” and calling to mind the words of Francis Scott Key’s “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
They had undergone a hard and thorough lesson in geography in their late teens and twenties, and certainly understood the location and significance of the Philippines, Iwo Jima, Tunisia or Normandy.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
From the USS Iwo Jima, he was first flown to the US Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
From Europe, he was sent to Iwo Jima, where “every square foot of earth seemed to be torn or pockmarked by shell fire and shrapnel,” and then Okinawa.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
The sennimbaris didn’t work for the Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima, either.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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