Amphibious Tractors churning toward the embattled beach head on 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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523.Photograph 'CinCPac 5346 February 22, 1945 Iwo Jima Beach under attack This photo, made from a Coast Guard guide boat, shows Amphibious Tractors churning toward the embattled beach head on Iwo Jima, on D-Day. The rocky shoreline is still being bombarded as these troops make ready to land.' 22 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:
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
Tracked landing vehicles--American--Iwo Jima