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208-PU-70A-1: Battle for Iwo Jima, February 1945

208-PU-70A-1: Battle for Iwo Jima, February 1945. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, (left), and Lieutenant General Holland Smith, Commander of the Marine Forces in Iwo landing, stand at a ship’s hail off Iwo Jima and watch the bitter fighting on the island February 24, 1945. Mount Suribachi, where the Marines later hoisted the American flag, is in the background. Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/03/29).
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Caption: Battle for Iwo Jima, February 1945. Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, (left), and Lieutenant General Holland Smith, Commander of the Marine Forces in Iwo landing, stand at a ship’s hail off Iwo Jima and watch the bitter fighting on the island February 24, 1945. Mount Suribachi, where the Marines later hoisted the American flag, is in the background. Office of War Information Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/03/29).
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