Rock cliffs on Mt. Suribachi are cut away by the Seabee's bulldozers on Iwo Jima in August 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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513.Photograph. 'File Number: 700213 Released: August 7, 1945 To the Top Rock cliffs once scaled by Marines in the bloody fight for possession of the high ground of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima are cut away by bulldozers of the Seabees. Seabees are now building a road to the top of this volcano that once served the Japs in their stubborn defense of the Pacific isle.'
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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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Road construction--Iwo Jima
Bulldozers--Iwo Jima