Iwo Jima's battered air field 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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517.Photograph. 'File No: CinCPac 5327 Iwo Jima's battered air field Bomb craters surround the runways of this Japanese air field, but the runways themselves have been filled in and repaired. Repair of the two airstrips on Iwo Jima became virtually a daily task for the enemy in the days preceding the landing by American troops. A lone Japanese plane appears near the end of the runway in the above photo, with one wing apparently damaged.' 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Aerial views--Iwo Jima
Air bases--Japanese--Iwo Jima
War damage--Iwo Jima