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F4U-1D Corsair with Marine Squadron 216 aboard USS Wasp (Essex-class) being moved onto the deck-edge elevator on its way to the hangar deck following a strike against targets in and around Tokyo, Japan, Feb 17, 1945.	Minesweepers worked the waters off Iwo Jima before the invasion, 17-18 Feb 1945; note the anti-aircraft bursts above the island and a burning aircraft close to the ground on the right

AMM 3rd Class L. H. McDowell at the drums during an orchestra performance aboard USS Anzio, 18 Feb 1945	A LCS(L) operating off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2

A LCS(L) operating off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	Battleship Idaho fired her 5-inch gun at shore targets on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee and a Fletcher-class destroyer provide gunfire support while LVTs raced for the beaches of Iwo Jima, morning of 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee and other American ships firing on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee bombarding the base of Mount Suribachi before the initial landings, causing a huge explosion, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2

Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	Battleship Tennessee off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Crew of a 30 caliber machine gun watched as Americans worked on an Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions at the beach edge, with smoke rising from other hits just inland on Iwo Jima, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945

Helmeted crewman in a landing craft watched as a Fletcher-class destroyer shelled Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Large explosion at the northern base of Mount Suribachi, probably during the pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	LCS(L)-31 or LCS(L)-36 and a LCVP operating off Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945

LVT landers carried US Marines past battleship Tennessee toward Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Marines crouched in a Coast Guard-manned LCVP on the way in on the first wave to hit the beach at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2