Photo #: NH 104222
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Amtracks speed in to Iwo Jima Assault Beach -- Just unloaded
from Navy and Coast Guard LST's these Amtracks speed their loads
of Marine troops ashore to the invasion beach of Iwo Jima."
Quoted from the original photo caption, released by the Pacific
Fleet on 22 February 1945.
Collection of James Edwin Bailey. Donated by his wife, Helen
McShane Bailey, 2006.
Official U.S. Coast Guard Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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