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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-474953

Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


Landings on Iwo Jima on "D-Day", 19 February 1945.
Some of the LVTs seen are retracting after putting their Marines ashore, as follow-up waves churn toward the beach.
The original image has a Steichen Unit photo number.

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

Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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Image posted 17 November 2006