Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Vice Admiral McMorris look over Japanese mines and booby traps on Iwo Jima on 25 March 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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524.Photograph 'CinCPac-POA AH-399 30 March 1945 Admiral Nimitz views enemy mines, booby trap Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz, (center) and Vice Admiral C. H. McMorris, Chief of Staff, (wearing sun helmet) look over Jap [Japanese] mines, (left aod(misspelled) center) and wooden booby trap (right) during an inspection tour of Iwo Jima, newly-won island, on March 25' 25 March 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:
Military inspections--Iwo Jima
Mines (Weapons)
Explosives
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Booby traps--Iwo Jima