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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104148
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Smoke rising from Mount Suribachi as it is hit by aircraft bombs
and ships' guns on 19 February 1945, probably just before U.S.
Marines landed on Iwo Jima.
The rocks of Tobiishi Point, at Iwo Jima's southern end, are
in the lower left.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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