Soldier with flame-thrower is supported by Marine riflemen on Iwo Jima 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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557.Photograph 'CinCPac 8005 26 February 1945 Last Stand A die-hard Jap [Japanese] on Iwo Jima gets a blast of liquid flame. Fifth Marine Division riflemen surround the dug-out ready to pour covering fire into the opening. The flame-thrower, supported by covering fire, has been a basic weapon in the cave to cave battle on the volcanic rock.' 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:
Flamethrowers--Iwo Jima
Caves--Iwo Jima