American Marines pause for a much-needed rest in shell craters and fox holes the day after they went ashore on Iwo Jima.
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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545.Photograph 'CinCPac-POA AH65 February 21, 1945 Marines take shelter on Iwo Jima With the battle raging close by, American Marines pause for a much-needed rest in shell craters and fox holes the day after they went ashore on Iwo Jima. This aerial picture was made by Lieut. L. C. Willis USNR, of Philadelphia, Pa.[Pennsylvania]' 21 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:
Foxholes--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Rest periods--Iwo Jima
War damage--Iwo Jima