US Soldier guards destroyed Japanese artillery piece on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima on 24 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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558.Photograph 'CinCPac 8006 26 February 1945 Mountain Fortress The rugged cliff above made this mighty Jap emplacement at the foot of Mount Suribachi almost completely impregnable. This picture of the wrecked gun was taken on the fifth day of the Iwo Jima struggle, the day the 28th Marine Regiment battled up the mountain and placed the American flag on the rim of the crater.' 26 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:
Artillery (Weaponry)--Japanese--Iwo Jima
War damage--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Mountains--Iwo Jima
Guards--Iwo Jima
Cliffs--Iwo Jima
Bunkers--Iwo Jima