Pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima on 17 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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519.Photograph. 'File Number: 306211 Released: April 12, 1945 Iwo Jima Dead in the water Resembling a giant black whale, the low-lying outline of Iwo Jima is speckled with white spouts of smoke as shells and bombs burst on its inert slopes during the pre-landing bombardment on D-Day-minus-2, February 17, 1945. Like tiny warfish attacking the whale, Navy vessels cruise off shore, hurling steel in incessant barrages against defense positions. For two days the base was pounded, smothered into sullen silence under the fusillades from the sea and sky But. . .when the Marines landed on February 19, 1945, the fanatic Japs crawled out of their fortifited holes and the island again erupted with smoke and flame.' 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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Bombardment--Iwo Jima
Aerial views--Iwo Jima