Marines lies as he fell on Iwo Jima in February 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
Description:
550.Photograph 'File Number: 49,203 Released: May 24, 1945 Red Stands for Iwo Jima Half-buried in the shifting volcanic sands, a Marines lies as he fell on Iwo Jima. . . one of the thousands who were killed in action. This is a 'still'from the Navy, Marine and Coast Guard film 'To the Shores of Iwo Jima.' 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.
Geography:
IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Dead persons--Iwo Jima
Beaches--Iwo Jima
Sand--Iwo Jima