Photo #: NH 65309
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Several Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) [LCI(G)] moving in to
support Underwater Demolition Teams off Iwo Jima, 17 February
1945.
Most of these LCI(G)s were badly shot up by Japanese defenses.
Courtesy of Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo, USN.
The original photograph came from the illustrations package for
Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of United States
Naval Operations in World War II", volume XIV: "Victory
in the Pacific".
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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