Illuminating shells fired in from supporting warships light up Iwo Jima in 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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518.Photograph. "CinCPac 8040 March 2, 1945 Star-shells over iwo Illuminating shells fired in from supporting warships light up the dark no-man's land between Jap front lines and the lines of the Third Marine Division on Iwo Jima. The star-shells were parachuted in from the sea every minute or two as a safeguard against enemy infiltration." 2 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:
Night warfare--Iwo Jima
Night photographs--Iwo Jima