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NH 104202 Iwo Jima Landings, 19 February 1945

Photo #: NH 104202 Iwo Jima Landings, 19 February 1945
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Title: Iwo Jima Landings, 19 February 1945
Description: Fourth Division Marines aboard a transport off Iwo Jima watch the first wave of amphtracs lumber toward shore at H-hour of D-day. The site for the beachhead is veiled in heavy smoke as the defenders rake the shoreline despite the heavy pre-invasion bombardment they sustained. Quoted from the original World War II vintage photo caption. Photographed by Gillespie. The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 104202
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