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 | In March of 1945, the Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the United States and the Imperial Japan. After Mount Suribachi, a volcano on Iwo Jima, was captured by the Navy, six men raised the Flag of the United States. The Photo of this act became very popular and became the sample for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. |  | 07/25/2006 | 993 | 



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 | Aerial of Mt. Suribachi from above before the assault on the island. |  | 02/12/2007 | 837 | 



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 | The Texas Air Museum is home to the bridge and island of the Vietnam era helicopter carrier IWO JIMA (LPH-2) . It rises over 100 feet above the south Texas plain. This carrier was involved with the pickup of the crew of the ill-fated Apollo 13 crew. |  | 09/26/2007 | 290 | 



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 | This photo was taken before the invasion of the island began. |  | 02/22/2007 | 644 | 



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 | USS Tripoli was the fifth Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship (helicopter). Decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list on September 15, 1995, TRIPOLI has since then beeb laid up at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California. |  | 09/20/2005 | 354 | 



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 | The Marine Corps War Memorial stands as a symbol of this grateful Nation's esteem for the honored dead of the U.S. Marine Corps. While the statue depicts one of the most famous incidents of World War II, the memorial is dedicated to all Marines who have given their lives in the defense of the United States since 1775.
-http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwmp/usmc.htm |  | 10/03/2006 | 872 | 
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 | All photographs were taken on 18 April 1945, one day after the last big raid on the city.
Dresden was both an important garrison as well as a centre of military industry during the Second World War. The bombing of Dresden by the Royal Air Force and by the United States Army Air Force between February 13 and February 15, 1945, remains one of the more controversial Allied actions o... |  | 06/25/2007 | 1,025 | 
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 | The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, was the wartime meeting from 4 February 1945 to 11 February 1945 among the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Europe's po... |  | 09/24/2009 | 44 | 



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 | 20 February 1945
Thick Cirrus at the head of the Adriatic with tops over 23,000 feet compelled the Group leader, Major Mixson, to abandon the Bolzano Marshalling Yard, Italy, as a primary target on 20 February 1945. The second alternate target, the shipyards at Fiume, Italy, was bombed visually for a score of 37.3 percent. The main concentration of bombs fell in the built-up are... |  | 05/11/2007 | 499 | 



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 | The national war cemetery of Sigolsheim contains the burials of 1.494 French soldiers who fell during the battle of the Colmar Pocket (20 January 1945 - 9 February 1945). |  | 08/18/2009 | 25 | 



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 | Mount Meru is an active volcano located just 70 kilometers (44 miles) west of Mount Kilimanjaro. It reaches 4,566 meters (14,978 feet) in height but has lost much of its bulk due to an eastward volcanic blast sometime in its distant past, perhaps similar to the eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington State in 1980. |  | 10/26/2005 | 968 | 
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 | Mount Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Turkey, a prominent landmark since antiquity (then known as Mount Argaeus) visible over much of the middle of the country. |  | 10/01/2005 | 550 | 



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