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Iwo Jima no more
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284834,00.html
It will now be known as Iwo To, as it was before the war.
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Thats really disappointing. I think the US Govt should buy the Island as a war memorial, and keep it as Iwo Jima
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They can dang well call it what the want to. The boys that died on it, died on Iwo Jima, so that is what I will call it
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
Absolutely agree with you it will always be Iwo Jima to us here
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
It is and always will be Iwo Jima to me.
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
Always Iwo, like....the "Nam"
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
Does anyone know of any other WW2 battle locations that have had their names changed? (I dont mean things like Volgograd.)
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June 25th, 2007, 10:32 AM
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
formosa is now tiawan
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June 25th, 2007, 11:50 AM
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Does anyone know of any other WW2 battle locations that have had their names changed? (I dont mean things like Volgograd.)
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Chkalov - Orenburg
Dzerzhinsky - Sorsk
Friedland (of Napoleonic fame) - Pravdinsk
Gzhatsk - Gagarin
Gorky - Nizhny Novgorod
Kaliningrad - Korolyov
Komsomolsky - Yugorsk
Königsberg - Kaliningrad
Krasnoyarsk - Zhelenogorsk
Leningrad - St. Petersburg
Molotov - Perm
Ordzhonikidze - Vladikavkaz
Pillau - Baltiysk
Preussisch Eylau - Bagrationovsk
Stalinsk - Novokuznetsk
Sverdlovsk - Yekaterinburg
Voroshilov - Ussuriysk
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
I found more! Here are a few:
Stalinabad, 1929-1961 — Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Staliniri, 1934-1961 — Tskhinvali, Georgia
Stalino, 1924-1961 — Donetsk, Ukraine
Stalinogorsk, 1934-1961 — Novomoskovsk, Russia
Stalinsk, 1932-1961 — Novokuznetsk, Russia
Also:
Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany - Stalinstadt
Chemnitz - Karl-Marx-Stadt
Danzig, East Prussia - Gdansk, Poland
Königsberg, East Prussia - Kaliningrad
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I found more! Here are a few:
Stalinabad, 1929-1961 — Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Staliniri, 1934-1961 — Tskhinvali, Georgia
Stalino, 1924-1961 — Donetsk, Ukraine
Stalinogorsk, 1934-1961 — Novomoskovsk, Russia
Stalinsk, 1932-1961 — Novokuznetsk, Russia
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Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany - Stalinstadt
Chemnitz - Karl-Marx-Stadt
Danzig, East Prussia - Gdansk, Poland
Königsberg, East Prussia - Kaliningrad
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Re: Iwo Jima no more
 Joke of the year!
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