Photo #: NH 104138
Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands
"High Point of Iwo Jima -- 'Close-up' of Mount Suribachi
on Tobiishi Point, snapped from a Navy plane during a carrier
strike that preceded the Marine landings on Iwo Jima announced
today. The strategic island has been battered by Navy aerial
and surface barrages, interspersed between Army bombings, for
many months prior to the amphibious invasion now in progress
by the Marines' Fifth Amphibious Corps." Quoted from the
original caption, released with this photograph on 19 February
1945.
The view shows the eastern side of Mount Suribachi and a small
portion of the lowlands to its north.
The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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