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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 89382

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


Amphibious tractors (LVT) pass astern of a battleship, during the bombardment of Iwo Jima just prior to the landings there, 19 February 1945.
Note the 40mm quadruple gun mount in the foreground, and Mount Suribachi in the background.

Courtesy of Robert O. Baumrucker, 1978.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 18 November 2006