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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104135

Iwo Jima Operation, February-March 1945


"Relief Map of Iwo Jima --- U.S. Navy carrier pilots were briefed for their strikes against Iwo Jima through the use of detailed relief maps such as this one". Quoted from the original photo caption, filed 6 April 1945.
Mount Suribachi, at the island's southern end, is in the lower right.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 8 November 2006