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NH 104313-KN Smoke Screen

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Title: Smoke Screen
Description: Smoke Screen Possibly taken during the Iwo Jima or Okinawa operations in 1945. The smoke appears to be employed to conceal landing craft and other vessels. An LCS is in the left center, and a destroyer is at the far left. Several other landing craft are present, in the center and right. Land is visible in the distance. Original 35mm Kodachrome transparency, photographed by Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, USNR, Boat Group Commander, USS Sanborn (APA-193). Collection of Lieutenant Commander Howard W. Whalen, USNR. Donated by Mrs. Nadine Whalen, 1997. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 104313-KN
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