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Photo #: NH 104372-KN (color)

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945

Scene on an Iwo Jima landing beach, shortly after the 19 February 1945 invasion. The broken ground at right indicates that this is the Blue Beach area.
Note the LCMs broached in the surf (that at left is from USS Belle Grove, LSD-2), as well as the LVTs and other vehicles in the beach area and inland.
This image forms a rightward extension of that seen in Photo # NH 104371-KN.
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 25 November 2006