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Photo #: 80-G-303924

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


Scene on Iwo Jima's eastern beaches as unloading progresses, circa late February 1945. Mount Suribachi is in the distance.
USS LSM-92 is the nearest landing ship.
Note the bogged down "half-track" truck at right (carrying a large gun) and the swamped LCM from USS Belle Grove (LSD-2) in the center.

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

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Image posted 17 November 2006