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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104202
Iwo Jima Landings, 19 February 1945
"Fourth Division Marines aboard a transport off Iwo Jima
watch the first wave of amphtracs lumber toward shore at H-hour
of D-day. The site for the beachhead is veiled in heavy smoke
as the defenders rake the shoreline despite the heavy pre-invasion
bombardment they sustained." Quoted from the original World
War II vintage photo caption.
Photographed by Gillespie.
The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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Image posted 20 November 2006