Landing craft smash ashore at Iwo Jima on 19 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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Landing craft approach Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945. "File Number: 305664 Released: April 25, 1945 Assault on Iwo Jima. Etching wakes like those of waterbugs on a calm pond surface, landing craft smash ashore at Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, opening day of the invasion. Other landing craft streak out for the transport area to pick up more armed passengers." 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
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Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima