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Photo #: NH 104273

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


"Iwo's Gibraltar --- Marines and their equipment on the Motoyama airfield number one are dwarfed by the Suribachi Volcano in the background. This sheer rock formation was the highest point of land on Iwo Jima and from well defended positions in the honeycombed caves, the Japanese laid a murderous fire on the Leatherneck beachhead." (quoted from the original caption released with this photograph in 1945).
Photographed by Private First Class Jack Campbell on 20 February 1945.
Note the 37mm gun in the foreground (with an irregular edge at the top of its shield), TBM "Avenger" bomber overhead and smoke rising from Suribachi's base.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long.

Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 14 January 2007