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NH 104138 Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands

Photo #: NH 104138 Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands
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Title: Iwo Jima, Volcano Islands
Description: High Point of Iwo Jima 'Close-up' of Mount Suribachi on Tobiishi Point, snapped from a Navy plane during a carrier strike that preceded the Marine landings on Iwo Jima announced today. The strategic island has been battered by Navy aerial and surface barrages, interspersed between Army bombings, for many months prior to the amphibious invasion now in progress by the Marines' Fifth Amphibious Corps. Quoted from the original caption, released with this photograph on 19 February 1945. The view shows the eastern side of Mount Suribachi and a small portion of the lowlands to its north. 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 104138
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