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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 104212
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
USS LSM-238 unloading on an Iwo Jima Beach, some days
after the 19 February 1945 landings.
The original World War II vintage photo caption reads: "Japs
View of American Armada off Iwo Jima -- The huge armada of Navy
and Coast Guard-manned ships and landing craft which brought
the Fourth and Fifth Marine divisions as well as elements of
the Third Division to the next island in the chain stretching
toward victory in Japan."
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.
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Image posted 20 November 2006