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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104206

Iwo Jima Operation 1945


"This is a view of the invasion beach on Iwo Jima, littered with tanks and supplies. Marines can be seen advancing against the stiff Japanese resistance." Quoted from the original World War II vintage picture caption.
Photographed on or shortly after 19 February 1945.

The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

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

Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 

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Image posted 20 November 2006