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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-2973 (Color)

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945

View looking southwestward down the length of the island from off its northeastern coast, during the initial landings on 19 February 1945.
Mount Suribachi is in the distance, in the upper center.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 38KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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Image posted 10 November 2006