Photo #: NH 104230
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Marines take Shelter on Iwo Jima. With the battle raging
close by, American Marines pause for a much-neaded rest in shell
craters and fox holes the day after they went ashore on Iwo Jima.
This aerial picture was made by Lieutenant L.S. Willis, USNR."
Quoted from the original photo caption, released by Commander-in-Chief,
Pacific/Pacific Ocean Areas on 21 February 1945.
The photograph was taken on 20 February 1945.
Collection of James Edwin Bailey. Donated by his wife, Helen
McShane Bailey, 2006.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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