Casualties from Iwo Jima's beaches are hoisted aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport lying just off the landing area in 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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551.Photograph 'Coast Guard Photo 4114 Released: Mar. 7, 1945 The Cost Is High at Iwo Jima Casualties from Iwo Jima's beaches of hellfire are hoisted aboard a Coast Guard-manned transport lying just off the landing area. The cost of this beachhead was high and soon the ship's quarters were filled with wounded Marines. Its sick bay was converted into an operating room. Coast Guard landing boat crews took in the Marines and came out with the casualties.' 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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War casualties--Iwo Jima
Dead persons--Iwo Jima
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima