US transport planes line an airstrip on Iwo Jima in March 1945

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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533.Photograph Douglas C-47 Skytrains and Curtiss C-46 Commandos parked on tarmac. 'File Number: TR-12940 March 30, 1945 Iwo Jima-March 1945 Evacuation planes Transport planes line an airstrip on Iwo Jima waiting to take wounded Marines to a Navy hospital on Guam. Mt.[Mount] Suribachi is seen in the background.' 30 March 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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
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