Aerial photograph showing the results of a US Navy air strike on Iwo Jima in February 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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534.Photograph 'File Number: 48148 Feb. 19, 1945 Navy Carrier based planes blast Jap shipping at Iwo Jima Smoke from fires ignited by bombs from Navy carrier-based planes blends with clouds and mist in this aerial photograph of an aerial strike preceding the Marine landings on Iwo Jima announced today. The strategic island has been mercilessly pounded for many months in preparation for the assault by the Leatherneck Fifth Amphibious Corps.' 19 February 1945
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial views--Iwo Jima
War damage--Iwo Jima