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Photo #: NH 104274

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


U.S. Marine rocket-launching trucks in action on Iwo Jima, 28 February 1945.
Photographed by Staff Sergeant Robbins, USMC.
The truck at left has "vis a terco" painted on its engine cover.
These International one-ton 4x4 trucks could ripple-launch thirty-six 4.5-inch rockets in a few seconds, providing a saturation barrage on their targets. However, the smoke and dust from rocket launching usually drew counter-battery fire from Japanese artillery, thus requiring the trucks and their crews to change positions immediately after firing.

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

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Image posted 14 January 2007