U. S. Navy's Fifth Fleet at a Pacific anchorage in preparation for assaults on Iwo Jima and Tokyo 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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511.Photograph. 'File No: 48144 February 19, 1945 Anchors Aweigh for Iwo Jima Units of the famed U. S. Navy's Fifth Fleet at a Pacific anchorage in preparation for the might assaults on Iwo Jima and on Tokyo. The Marines assaulted Iwo Jima February 19, 1945. Visible in this aerial photograph are LST's and smaller landing craft waiting to be hauled aboard their transports lying further away in the background may be seen some of the heavy units.' 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
Warships--American--Iwo Jima
Aircraft carriers--American--Iwo Jima