Suribachi

[ soor-uh-bah-chee ]

noun

1. an extinct volcano on Iwo Jima island: World War II battle 1945.

Suribachi

/ ˌsʊərɪˈbɑːtʃɪ /

noun

1. Mount Suribachi
   a volcanic hill in the Volcano Islands, on Iwo Jima: site of a US victory (1945) over the Japanese in World War II

Example Sentences

He was in the harbor at Iwo Jima to witness the raising of the U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi, and had returned there in 2019, just before his 97th birthday.

From Seattle Times

Williams was a 21-year-old Marine Corps corporal when he watched from the bloodied, ashy beaches of Iwo Jima as the Stars and Stripes rose atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945.

From Seattle Times

As a young Marine corporal, Williams went ahead of his unit in February 1945 and eliminated a series of Japanese machine gun positions at Iwo Jima, where Marines planted the American flag on Mount Suribachi, a moment captured in one of history’s most iconic war photographs.

From Los Angeles Times

Two days after that came the flag-raising at Mount Suribachi captured by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal.

From Washington Post

Hershel W. “Woody” Williams was a 21-year-old Marine Corps corporal when he watched from the bloodied, ashy beaches of Iwo Jima as the Stars and Stripes rose atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945.

From Washington Post