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Iwo Jima
     
Iwo Jima
an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to Japan, where US forces won a very difficult battle in World War II. There is a statue in Washington, D.C., of US Marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima after they had won the battle.
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