Photo #: NH 104371-KN (color)
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Scene on an Iwo Jima landing beach, circa late February 1945.
A broached Landing Craft, Mechanized (LCM) from USS Belle
Grove (LSD-2) is in the center foreground. Several amphibious
tractors (LVT) are among the vehicles on the beach, amid scattered
supplies and mounds of volcanic ash.
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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