Marines and Coast Guard set up command posts on 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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516.Photograph 'CinCPac 5381 March 1, 1945 Dug in on the Iwo Jima beach Marines and Coast Guard Battalion men set up for business only a few yards from the water's edge and under the guns of Suribachi, using shell craters as foxholes to set up their communications and commandposts.' 1 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:
Foxholes--Iwo Jima
Tents--Iwo Jima
Communications
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima