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Photo #: NH 65314 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945 "'... And the unloading of general cargo is proceeding'" "Five LSTs and one LSM nose into the dark sands of Iwo Jima February 24, the day on which Fleet Admiral C.W. Nimitz' communique said that the 'unloading of general cargo is proceeding.'" Quoted from the original picture caption released for publication on 25 February 1945 by Commander in Chief, Pacific/Pacific Ocean Area. View shows Beach Green One, with mount Suribachi in the background. The small wrecked ship in the foreground is Japanese. The landing ships include (from bottom to center): LSM-264, LST-724, LST-760, LST-788, LST-808 (with a LCT embarked), and LST-779 (carrying a pontoon causeway). The original photograph came from the illustrations package for Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II", volume XIV: "Victory in the Pacific". It was provided to Morison by E.J. Long. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 107KB; 610 x 765 pixels |
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