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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 104290

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


"Slightly under Fire --- This Marine rifleman crouches low to move forward on Iwo Jima as Jap machine gun bullets rip through the trees above his head. Jap lying in the road (center) had been killed by advancing Marines an hour before. The picture was taken from the depression in the foreground 50 yards from the front lines." (quoted from the original caption released with this photograph on 3 March 1945).
Photographed by T/Sgt. Byrd Ferneyhough.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

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

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Image posted 17 January 2007