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Photo #: NH 104312-KN (color)

Smoke Screen

Possibly being laid by a rocket off an invasion beach in 1945. Note the explosions on the ridge line in the center distance.
Though part of a group of slides taken during the Iwo Jima operation, this view may have been made during the Okinawa campaign or during a practice exercise, as the battleship in the left center appears to be either USS Colorado (BB-45) or USS Maryland (BB-46). Both of were active off Okinawa. Neither took part in the Iwo Jima operation.
Original 35mm Kodachrome transparency, photographed by Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, USNR, Boat Group Commander, USS Sanborn (APA-193).

Collection of Lieutenant Commander Howard W. Whalen, USNR. Donated by Mrs. Nadine Whalen, 1997.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 7 November 2006