Photo #: NH 104225
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Only Yards from Iwo Jima's Invasion Beach -- Marines of
the Fifth Marine Division ready to land from a Coast Guard landing
craft just off the shore of the new east invasion beach on the
road to Tokyo. Hundreds of these landing craft brought men of
the Marine Fourth and Fifth Divisions from Navy and Coast Guard
attack transports off shore to the assault beach." Quoted
from the original photo caption, released circa February 1945.
This landing craft is an LCVP. Date of the photo is presumably
the Iwo Jima "D-Day", 19 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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