Floating post office for troops prior to the invasion of Iwo Jima, 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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529.Photograph 'File Number: 110021 Released: March 3, 1945 Mail for Fighting Men Before going into the grim battle for Iwo Jima, members of the Marine Fifth Amphibious Corps were given their mail from a floating Navy 'post office.' Letters and packages from the folks at home were distributed by landing craft of the same type which soon were carrying the Marines into battle. Marine postal clerks (left to right) Sergt. B. D. Bryant of Spartansburg, Pa.[Pennsylvania]; Corp. Edward B. Hearn, Jr. of Little Rock, Ark.[Arkansas]; Corp. Clarence M. Harry Jr., of Pocahontas, Va.[Virginia]; and Technical Sergt. Edward J. Doughty of Somerville, Mass.[Massachusetts] sort out the mail on the floating post office.' 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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Postal service--American--Iwo Jima
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Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima