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NH 65312 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945

Photo #: NH 65312 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
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Title: Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Description: Pinned Down Fourth Division Marines are pinned down by enemy fire as they hit the beach at Iwo Jima on D-Day, February 19. Making their fourth amphibious assault in 13 months, the veteran fighters are ready to secure the right flank of the initial beachhead.' Quoted from the original picture caption released for publication on 25 February 1945 by Commander in Chief, Pacific. The landing ship in the background (with its bow and stern numbers censored) is LSM-206. Note broached LCM in the center, and swamped jeep and LCVP (also with identification markings censored) at right. The original photograph came from the illustrations package for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, volume XIV: Victory in the Pacific. It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long. Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 65312
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