Photo #: NH 104232
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Marine casualty from the first wave at Iwo Jima rests on
a bed of life preservers aboard a Coast Guard LCVP; puffing on
a cigarette supplied by a crew member while on the way to a hospital
ship lying offshore." Quoted from the original photo caption,
released by Commander-in-Chief, Pacific on 21 February 1945.
It was presumably taken on 19 February, when Marines first landed
on Iwo Jima.
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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