Aerial view of Mount Suribachi on the southern tip of Iwo Jima on 20 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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522.Photograph 'CinCPac-PCA AH-66 February 21, 1945 Closeup of Jap strong point on Iwo Jima This is a closeup view of Mount Suribachi, on the southern tip of Iwo Jima, a Japanese strong point where American Marines were meeting stiff opposition from the Nipponese. This photo made by Lieut. L. S. Willis USNR, of Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20.' 20 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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