The uncompleted cemetery of the Third and Fourth Marine Divisions on Iwo Jima in 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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539.Photograph 'File Number: TR-12948 Released: March 30, 1945 Iwo Jima March 1945 Iwo's cost The uncompleted cemetery of the Third and Fourth Marine Divisions on Iwo Jima. The harbor is full of the landing craft that brought these men ashore.' 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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IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Cemeteries--American--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Beaches--Iwo Jima
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima