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NH 104139 Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

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Title: Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands
Description: 'Tip' The Marines will Take: Southwest Promontory of Iwo Jima Taken during an earlier aerial strike by Navy carrier-based planes, this aerial photograph of strategic Iwo Jima reveals the southwest tip of the island, with the cratered height of Mount Suribachi at the far end of Tobiishi Point. Announcement was made today that members of the Marines' Fifth Amphibious Corps have swarmed ashore and opened the battle for the base following an obliterating preliminary barrage by hundreds of Navy ships and planes. Quoted from the original caption, released with this photograph on 19 February 1945. The view looks approximately east, with Mount Suribachi in the lower right. Bombs are bursting at the southern end of Airfield Number One, in the left center. Note the agricultural fields between the camera and the airfield. Heavy surf all around the island indicates particularly bad weather on this day. The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 104139
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