NOUN
- the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
- a bloody and prolonged operation on the island of Iwo Jima in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
How To Use Iwo Jima In A Sentence
- Iwo Jima was the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, and three leathernecks of the 4th and 5th Divisions used sidearms on the sulphurous island during February and March 1945.
- Iwo Jima helped teach us how to deal with kamikazes.
- Athletic, a medalled surfer, Navy nurse at Pearl Harbor and off Iwo Jima. "My hollow shell gives you the finger."
- But I would not compare a tribe of children flailing weak appendages at the hard surface their soft bellies go upon, in protest for the high muckymuck partisan Brown, to the battle for Iwo Jima Think Progress » As Obama Nominees Languish, Committee Schedules Vote On Right-Wing McConnell Nominee
- The famous sculpture of the Marines struggling to raise the flag on Iwo Jima serves as a backdrop.
- Q Mike, this issue of the Iwo Jima and the Air Force Memorial has heated up again with Jay Carter Brown calling the Iwo Jima Memorial -- first of all, does the White House agree with his classification? Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
- John Bradley won the decoration for heroism on Iwo Jima, just two days before the flag raising.
- I can also remember coming home from lunch one day into my dormitory room; my mother had sent me a letter, and out of it fell an obituary of a young man who died in Iwo Jima. What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?: "Life would never be the same again"
- Despite its size, Iwo Jima was considered to have great tactical importance.
- As a combat correspondent in World War IL, he landed with the marines at Guam and Iwo Jima.
