Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal looks over Marine positions on Iwo Jima on 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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543.Photograph 'File Number: 308105 Released: May 21, 1945 'SECNAV' visits embattled Iwo Jima Feet spread apart and ankle-deep in the volcanic, blood-drenched sand of Iwo Jima, Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal (center) looks over Marine positions during the battle which opened on February 19, 1945.' Probably 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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
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Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Beaches--Iwo Jima
Military officers--American--Iwo Jima