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Photo #: NH 104581

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


Bulldozer pulls a road grader, while constructing a road along the Iwo Jima shore in the vicinity of the "East Boat Basin" at the northern end of the invasion beaches, 21 April 1945. Several Japanese landing ships are wrecked on the coast beyond the road. Those closest to the camera are of the T-101/T-103 type. More distant, in the center, is a T-1 type transport. Mount Suribachi is in the right background.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. It was photographed by Morison's associate, Lieutenant Henry Salomon Jr., USNR.

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

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Image posted 20 January 2007