Reconnaissance aerial view of Iwo Jima prior to the invasion 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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512.Photograph. 'File No: 48158 Feb. 20, 1945 Iwo Jima-Eight square miles of hell 'Like a pork chop sizzling on a hot griddle' was the way one commentator described the volcanic island of Iwo Jima, which the U. S. Marines assaulted on February 19, 1945. Landing at three places between the extinct volcano core, Mt. Suribachi, lower right, and the projection of land at top, the Leathernecks headed inland covered by a hail of steel from warships standing off. Their first objective was the series of airstrips at right, and increasingly heavy Japanese resistance was encountered as the Marines moved toward its runways. This view of Iwo Jima, 700 miles from the Jap homeland, was taken on a pre-invasion photographic mission.' 19 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
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Aerial views--Iwo Jima
Coastlines--Iwo Jima