Signalmen with U.S. Navy Commander Wotherspoon aboard the USS Rutland in 1945
Gift of Paulette Stewart
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Group portrait of the signalmen aboard the USS Rutland with U.S. Navy Commander Alexander Somerville Wotherspoon, the squadron leader of a fleet of Convoy Troop Ships who landed U.S. Marines on Okinawa and Iwo Jima during the war (bottom row, third from right); all aboard the USS Rutland in 1945. From donor's notes: "Comm. Wotherspoon and signalmen.".
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Items from the US Navy service of Jules de la Vergne who served aboard the attack transport USS Rutland in the Pacific
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IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Sailors--American--Iwo Jima
Military officers--American--Iwo Jima
Group portraits--Iwo Jima