Photo #: NH 104217
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Beach scene on Iwo Jima about two or three days after the 19
February 1945 landings.
Note the LVTs bogged down just inland from the water's edge,
and USS LSM-241 in the background.
The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files. It was provided to
Morison by Ellery Sedgwick, Jr.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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