Photo #: NH 65310
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Jap Pillbox Smashed by Iwo Bombardment"
"When advancing Marines reached this Japanese pill box on
Iwo Jima, they found it in this condition, apparently demolished
by the combined gunfire of U.S. Navy warships offshore and aerial
bombardment. This picture was made during the week following
the landing on Iwo on February 19th." Quoted from the original
picture caption released for publication on 28 February 1945
by Commander in Chief, Pacific/Pacific Ocean Area.
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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