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80-G-304729 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945

Photo #: 80-G-304729 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
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Title: Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Description: Heavy shell and bomb cratering around one of Iwo Jima's airfields, with smoke rising from a recent hit (in the lower center), on D-Day, 19 February 1945. Note the aircraft revetments and trenches. Several wrecked planes are visible. Photographed from a USS Hancock (CV-19) plane. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-304729
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