This page features views of damage inflicted during the February 1945 bombardment of Iwo Jima.
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Photo #: 80-G-304729 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945 Heavy shell and bomb cratering around one of Iwo Jima's airfields, with smoke rising from a recent hit (in the lower center), on "D-Day", 19 February 1945. Note the aircraft revetments and trenches. Several wrecked planes are visible. Photographed from a USS Hancock (CV-19) plane. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 127KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-412537 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945 Twisted steel and shattered concrete mark the remains of a Japanese defensive position in an Iwo Jima hillside, March 1945. Taken by a member of the Steichen unit. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 120KB; 740 x 520 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 65310 Iwo Jima Operation, 1945 "Jap Pillbox Smashed by Iwo Bombardment" "When advancing Marines reached this Japanese pill box on Iwo Jima, they found it in this condition, apparently demolished by the combined gunfire of U.S. Navy warships offshore and aerial bombardment. This picture was made during the week following the landing on Iwo on February 19th." Quoted from the original picture caption released for publication on 28 February 1945 by Commander in Chief, Pacific/Pacific Ocean Area. 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". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 153KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Page made 31 December 2006