U. S. Navy flotilla lying off Iwo Jima during landing operations in 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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510.Photograph. 'File Number: 307206 Released: April 11, 1945. U. S. Navy flotilla lying off Iwo Jima landing operations Ships and landing craft of the U. S. Navy anchored off the East beach of Iwo Jima during landings by our forces, present this striking view.' 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
Coastlines--Iwo Jima
Aerial views