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	iwo
		IWO is the only professional body concerned solely with the water industry.
		IWO was formed in 1945 and membership is open to anyone working within the industry regardless of qualifications.
		Young IWO members are set to take centre stage alongside exceptional speakers from the Water Industry as part of ‘Pride In Our Industry’ - the IWO Annual Conference 2008...
	www.iwo.org.uk (133 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Iwo Jima (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iwo Jima appears to be one of a number of Japanese islands which has been used by the United States to host nuclear arms, according to Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and William Burr writing for the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists in early 2000.
		Iwo Jima is volcanic in origin and in fact is a mostly undersea caldera formed from violent eruptions sometime in the ancient past.
		Iwo Jima is one of the Volcano Islands, part of the Ogasawara Islands, a group of islands about 670 miles (1,080 km) south of Tokyo, 700 miles (1,130 km) north of Guam, and nearly halfway between Tokyo and Saipan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Iwo-Jima (2596 words)

	IWO JIMA
		Iwo Jima was the site of one of the most important and most bitterly fought amphibious operations of the Pacific War.
		Iwo Jima received tons of supplies and scores of Army helicopters, tanker trucks, and vehicles in her hangar and flight deck spaces.
		Iwo Jima continues her support of simultaneous sea and air assaults as the nerve-center of an Amphibious Ready Group that can strike anywhere along the Vietnamese coast within 48 hours.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/i3/iwo_jima.htm (1561 words)

	The Ship
		Iwo Jima's main duty during the tests was to evacuation of non-essential personnel from Johnston Island during a test and then returning them to the island after the test.
		USS Iwo Jima was christened at the Litton Ingalls Shipyard in Pascagoula, MS on March 25, 2000 by Zanrda Krulak, wife of retired Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak.
		Iwo Jima departed on it's first extended operational deployment to the Mediterranean in March of 2003 and took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Spring of 2003.
	www.megalink.net /~yujack/sigh/iwo/ship.htm (1711 words)

	Battle for Iwo Jima, 1945
		Iwo Jima, which means Sulfur Island, was strategically important as an air base for fighter escorts supporting long-range bombing missions against mainland Japan.
		The seizure of Iwo would allow for sea and air blockades, the ability to conduct intensive air bombardment and to destroy the enemy's air and naval capabilities.
		The battle for Iwo Jima is encapsulated by this historic flag raising atop Suribachi, which was captured on film by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/battleiwojima.htm (1752 words)

	Battle of Iwo Jima (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Iwo Jima, or Sulfur Island, was one of the most ugly and most unpleasant islands of the Pacific.
		It was important for the Americans to take the volcanic island of Iwo Jima during World War II because of its strategic position in the Pacific Ocean.
		Iwo Jima was about halfway for the bombers going on raids to Japan.
	home.earthlink.net /~cgsearles/Patriot/battleofiwojima.htm (474 words)

	Iwo Jima: February 19 - March 12, 1945
		Moreover, in Japan's hands Iwo Jima and two neighboring islands - Haha Jima and Chichi Jima - were a thorn in the AAF's side.
		The next morning, February 23, Marines reached the summit of Iwo Jima's Mt. Suribachi, and raised a small American flag, which was replaced two hours later by a flag nearly twice the size.
		The battle for Iwo Jima was still raging, but this moment raised the spirits of every man on the island.
	www.cv6.org /1945/iwo (1511 words)

	Iwo Jima: A Remembrance
		Iwo Jima - General resource on the battle includes film clips, biographies and photo galleries.
		My father's Captain on Iwo Jima phoned my mother and asked her if she knew that my father had been awarded the Navy Cross for valor two days before the flag raising.
		He was dead on Iwo Jima at the age of nineteen.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,NI_Iwo_Jima,00.html (1464 words)

	Iwo Jima
		During the winter of 1945, in the midst of World War II, the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, part of Japan, was an attractive target for the Allied command.
		Iwo Jima, well within striking distance of Tokyo, was seen as an ideal staging area for expanded bombing runs with fighter cover and a key location for damaged bombers to land in emergency situations.
		The most famous image from the Battle of Iwo Jima is undoubtedly the photograph of the flag raising at the summit of Mount Suribachi that was taken by the AP's Joe Rosenthal.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/iwojima1.html (430 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Iwo Jima would be the first island of the Japanese homeland to be attacked.
		The lesson of Iwo Jima is in fact an ancient one, going back to Machiavelli: that sometimes free societies must be as tough and unrelenting as their enemies.
		In 1945 on Iwo Jima, it was the Americans, as the monument at Arlington Cemetery, based on Rosenthal's photograph, proudly attests.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110006317 (949 words)

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