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Photo #: NH 104582
Iwo Jima Operation, February-March 1945
"Air Mail Special --- Jubilant Marines gather parapacks
of mail dropped by a transport plane for Leatherneck troops on
the American-held portion of Iwo Jima. Large quantities of blood
plasma was (sic) delivered in a similar 'raid'."
(quoted from the original 1945 vintage photo caption).
Photographed by Technical Sergeant H. Neil Gillespie.
This view appears to look toward the high ground of northern
Iwo Jima, where fighting was intense in late February and March
1945.
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files. It was provided to
Morison by E.J. Long.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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Image posted 20 January 2007