Aerial view of Iwo Jima under attack 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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527.Photograph. 'File Number: TR-12927 March 13, 1945 Iwo Jima: Bloody milestone on Tokyo Road Launching the Marines on the grimmest battle in a long history of grim battles (illegible) of a giant Navy Task Force land members of the Fifth Marines (illegible rest of paragraph) Bombs and shells are still bursting ashore as the tiny landing craft hit for the beach.' 13 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
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