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Photo: Iwo Jima Leadership

<p>Navy and Marine Corps leadership aboard USS Eldorado (AGC-11) during Iwo Jima campaign. Photo is signed by James Forrestal: &quot;To a competent, fighting Navy Man, Vice-Admiral Kelly Turner.&quot;</p>
Title: Turner-Forrestal
Caption: Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, LtGen H. M. Smith, USMC, RADM Harry W. Hill, USN, and VADM Richmond Kelly Turner, USN, aboard USS Eldorado (AGC-11) during Iwo Jima campaign, Feb. 20, 1945. Photo is signed by James Forrestal: "To a competent, fighting Navy man, Vice-Admiral Kelly Turner."
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From the Papers of Richmond K. Turner

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  • Boats-Ships--Amphibious Warfare Ships
  • Theater of Operations--Pacific
  • Operations
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  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
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  • Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV)
  • Navy Leadership
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  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
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  • NHHC-Archives
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