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| Beach scene at Iwo Jima about two or three days after the initial landings, showing the beach cluttered with wrecked LVTs, landing craft and other debris, circa 21-22 Feb 1945 | Mired LVT(A) on Iwo Jima beach, circa 21-22 Feb 1945 |
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| US Marine M4 Sherman tank mired in soft volcanic sand, Iwo Jima, Japan, 21 Feb 1945 | Wrecked tank and LVTs on Blue Beach No. 1, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945 |
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| Vehicles on Iwo Jima's Red Beach, circa 25 Feb 1945; LST-884 and LST-929 in background | M4 Sherman 'Cairo' disabled by land mine, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945; note heavy wooden side planking meant to protect against magnetic demolition charges. |
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| Destroyed American amtracs and other vehicles on beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945 | LCMs broached in the surf (the left most one was from USS Belle Grove LSD-2) and LVTs and other vehicles on Blue Beach, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa late Feb 1945 |
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| LST-764 unloading on an Iwo Jima beach, circa late Feb 1945 | Men of Company C, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, US 1st Infantry Division marching toward Frauwüllesheim, Germany, after crossing the Roer River, 28 Feb 1945 |
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| Abandoned Japanese Type 1 medium tank on Iwo Jima, Japan, 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 |
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| An American soldier looking at a knocked out German Jagdtiger tank, Morsbronn-les-Bains area, Alsace, France, Mar 1945 | An explosion on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. Note two M-3 Halftrack personnel carriers. |
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| 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 |
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| Destroyed equipment on the beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. Note the overturned DUKW and two wrecked LCVPs. | M26 Pershing heavy tank of US 9th Armored Division, near Vettweiss, Germany, Mar 1945 |
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| Navy corpsmen helped a wounded Marine to reach an aid station, Iwo Jima, Feb-Mar 1945. Note crushed Jeep and submerged M4 Sherman tank. | United States Marine inspecting an abandoned Japanese Type 95 light tank on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945. |
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