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Photo #: 80-G-412465

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


Wrecked Japanese landing ship on an Iwo Jima beach, March 1945.
Photographed from the shattered remnants of another beached Japanese vessel by Captain Edward J. Steichen, USNR, or a member of his unit.
Mount Suribachi is in the right distance.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Image posted 13 January 2007