1. Iwo Jima - Noun
2. Iwo Jima - Proper noun
a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
Source: WordNetI don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy. Karl Marlantes
I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima. J. B. Smoove
“75 years ago this week, our brave United States Marines landed on the shores of Iwo Jima and began one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World War. Source: Internet
Alexander,Storm Landings, p. 95. Frogmen performing underwater demolition at Iwo Jima confused the enemy by sweeping both coasts, but later alerted Japanese defenders to the exact assault beaches at Okinawa. Source: Internet
After Iwo Jima, it was estimated there were no more than 300 Japanese left alive in the island's warren of caves and tunnels. Source: Internet
American intelligence sources were confident that Iwo Jima would fall in one week. Source: Internet