Father Joseph Hammond gives Holy Communion to a Fourth Division Marine on Iwo Jima 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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525.Photograph 'CinCPac 8027 February 27, 1945 God be with you Father Joseph Hammond gives Holy Communion to a Fourth Division Marine on Iwo Jima within 100 yards of the battle for the strategic airstrip.' 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
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Communion--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Clergy--American--Iwo Jima
Religious services--Iwo Jima