Individual #invasion_of_Iwo__Iwo__Iwo_Jima  a bloody and prolonged operation in which American marines landed and defeated Japanese defenders (February and March 1945)
  instance of:  #amphibious_assault
  location:  #Pacific_Ocean
  part of:  #World_War_II__World_War___Second_World_War  a war between the Allies (Australia Belgium Bolivia Brazil Canada China Colombia Costa-Rico Cuba Czechoslovakia Dominican-Republic El-Salvador Ethiopia Greece Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Iran Iraq Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New-Zealand Nicaragua Norway Panama Philippines Poland South-Africa United-Kingdom US USSR Yugoslavia) and the Axis (Albania Bulgaria Finland Germany Hungary Italy Japan Rumania Slovakia Thailand) from 1939 to 1945

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