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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