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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