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| Battleship Indiana underway en route to attack Tokyo, Japan with Task Force 58.1, 12 Feb 1945; note ships of Task Group 58.3 in background | Column of American cruisers Phoenix (where the photo was taken), Boise, Denver, Cleveland, and Montpelier, off Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 13 Feb 1945 |
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| Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia and President Franklin Roosevelt of the United States aboard USS Quincy, Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 13 Feb 1945 | US President Franklin Roosevelt and King Farouk of Egypt aboard USS Quincy in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 13 Feb 1945 |
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| USS Cero off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 13 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 3 | USS Cero off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 13 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 3 |
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| USS Cero off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 13 Feb 1945, photo 3 of 3 | Franklin Roosevelt and King Abdul-Aziz (Ibn Saud) of Saudi Arabia aboard USS Quincy, Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 14 Feb 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Marine Corps Colonel William A. Eddy (kneeling), minister to Saudi Arabia |
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| John Winant, Anna Boettiger (née Roosevelt), and Harry Hopkins aboard USS Quincy, Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 14 Feb 1945 | John Winant, Franklin Roosevelt, Edward Stettinius, and Harry Hopkins aboard USS Quincy, Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, 14 Feb 1945 |
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| Marine F4U Corsair of VMF-123 aboard USS Bennington after crashing against the island, breaking in half, and catching fire, 14 Feb 1945 off Iwo Jima. Note burning fuel in the flight deck tie-down track. | Aboard USS Phoenix, US Navy Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey spoke to HMAS Australia or Shropshire via an eletric megaphone during the bombardment of Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 15 Feb 194 |
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| Salmon underway at sea on 15 Feb 1945, while in the Atlantic Ocean en route to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States | Battleship New York bombarding Iwo Jima, 16 Feb 1945; view looked aft, on the starboard side |
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| USS Saint Paul at Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 16 Feb 1945 | As seen from battleship USS Texas, Fletcher-class destroyer USS Twiggs engaging in a pre-invasion bombardment of Iwo Jima’s landing beach White 2 in support of underwater demolition team operations, about 1600 hours on 17 Feb 1945. |
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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. | AMM 3rd Class L. H. McDowell at the drums during an orchestra performance aboard USS Anzio, 18 Feb 1945 |
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| US Coast Guardsmen assisting a wounded Marine into an LCVP after the Marine’s LVT sustained a direct hit while heading to the landing beaches on Iwo Jima, Feb 18, 1945. | A LCVP, several M4 'Sherman' tanks, and men on an Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945 |
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