Marine laden U. S. Navy landing craft pierce Japanese fire as they approach 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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540.Photograph 'File Number: 305663 Released: April 11, 1945 Sea arrows of invasion Feathery shaft-like wakes of Marine laden U. S. Navy landing craft pierce the enfilading Jap fire as they approach the beach at Iwo Jima February 19, 1945. The now famous Mount Suribachi is in the center background of the photograph.' 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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