Weatherday: Iwo Jima

The wet and wind from through the night will continue for most of the day. Rain will be heavy at times, gradually easing by teatime.

Highest temperature around 10deg, strong and gusty wind from the south through the day, remaining fresh after dark.

On this day in 1945, 30,000 US Marines invaded the tiny Japanese island of Iwo Jima, eventually gaining control in a highly symbolic victory in the final phases of World War II.

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