Iwo Jima

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1. A volcanic island in the Volcano Islands in the North Pacific, now administered as part of Tokyo's Ogasawara Subprefecture and most famous for a major battle in World War II.

   At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.

   2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN

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   Not many weeks before, during the battle for Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer, had taken his inspired photograph of the American flag being raised on Mount Suribachi.

   1955, Harry S Truman, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions, volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, →OCLC, →OL, page 82

   Synonyms: Ioto, Ioshima, Sulfur Island, Sulphur Island

2. A volcanic island in the Satsunan Islands in the Philippine Sea, administered as part of Kagoshima.

   Synonyms: Satsuma Iwo Jima, Satsuma Iojima, Satsuma Iōjima, Tokara Iwo Jima, Tokara Iojima, Tokara Iōjima