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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-474795

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945

LVTs retracting from the Iwo Jima beaches after landing the initial waves of Marines, during the morning of 19 February 1945.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) is in the right center.
The original image has a Steichen Unit photo number and is attributed to "LtJG Gene Senier" (whose name does not appear in contemporary U.S. Navy Registers).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 60KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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Image posted 17 November 2006