The 5th Marine Division places steel matting over the soft sands of Iwo Jima beach on 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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556.Photograph. 'CinCPac 5371 27 February 1945 'Rush Job' While foxholes and gun emplacements are hurriedly camouflaged in background, elements of the Fifth Marine Division lay steel matting over soft volcanic ashoff (misspelled) Iwo Jima beach to form roadbed to supply dump at right. Supplies already have been placed ashore from Navy and Coast Guard-manned landing craft to keep the Jap going.' 27 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:
Camouflage (Military science)
Military depots--Iwo Jima
Sand--Iwo Jima
Artillery (Weaponry)--American--Iwo Jima