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A regimental command post at Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945	A US Marine threw a grenade at enemy sheltered in a northern Iwo Jima cave, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Abandoned Japanese Type 1 medium tank on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945	Aerial photograph taken during bombing of a Japanese forward submarine base on Okinawa, Japan, Mar 1945

Aerial view of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands with the relatively flat island plain beyond, Feb or Mar 1945 as the battle raged on. Note landing ships beached at right.	Aerial view of Tokyo, Japan after the 25 Feb 1945 raid, circa Mar-Apr 1945

Aerial view of Tokyo, Japan with markings of key buildings of interest, early 1945	African-American US Marines Willie J. Kanody, Elif Hill, and John Alexander on a beach at Iwo Jima, Mar 1945

American troops posing atop one of two knocked-out StuG III Ausf G assault guns near Modrath, Germany, 1945; the vehicles were disabled by US 9th Air Force fighter-bombers	An explosion on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. Note two M-3 Halftrack personnel carriers.

Anti-tank barriers near the radio tower, Berlin, Germany, Mar 1945	Brigadier General Franklin Hart and Major General Clifton Cates studying a map, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Brigadier General Franklin Hart, Major General Clifton Cates, and an unidentified officer (right, with glasses) at Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	C-47 or R4D aircraft delivering mail to US Marines in southern Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Captain Edward Steichen, head of the Navy’s combat photography and Director of the Naval Photographic Institute, right, speaking with US Marine Corporal William Damato on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Mar 1945	Catholic mass atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, for American Marines, circa Feb or Mar 1945

Civilians walking through Vienna, occupied Austria, Mar 1945	Clifton Cates in conference with his staff officers and regimental commanders, aboard a ship off Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Damaged and abandoned LVTs sink into the sand as beach activity continues on Iwo Jima, Feb 1945.	Damaged LVT(A)-4 on the beach of Iwo Jima, Feb-Mar 1945