Navy men wounded during the invasion of Iwo Jima while aboard the USS New York are buried on the island on 19 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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553.Photograph 'File Number: 48599 Released: March 4, 1945 Taps for the Honored Dead Three Navy men who were wounded in the assault on Iwo Jima, and later died aboard the veteran battleship USS New York are buried from the battleship with military honors. Navy Chaplain D. S. Rankin, Lieutenant (ChC) USNR, of South Langhorne, Pa.[Pennsylvania] officiates at the funeral ceremony on D-Day, Feb. 19, 1945.' 19 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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Battleships--American--Iwo Jima
Burials at sea
Funeral rites & ceremonies--Iwo Jima
Flags--American
Chaplains--Iwo Jima
Clergy--American--Iwo Jima
Military bands--American