Photos Taken in Iwo Jima | World War II Database

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Bulldozer, Jeep, and other vehicles on an Iwo Jima beach, circa late Feb or early Mar 1945	Post office of the US 4th Marine Division, Iwo Jima, 1945

LSM-264 unloading on Red Beach One, Iwo Jima, Japan, 2 Mar 1945	A US Marine ran past a dead Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, Japan, 3 Mar 1945

Two US Marines with an empty stretcher ran past a dead Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, 3 Mar 1945	B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Dinah Might' after making an emergency landing at Motoyama Airfield No. 1, Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945

B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Dinah Might' after making an emergency landing at Motoyama Airfield No. 1, Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945; note USMC OY-1 Sentinal of VMO-4 and MB or GPW Jeep in foreground	Overlooking Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945; note US Marine with M1 Carbine, Type 96 anti-aircraft mount, and the first B-29 to land on Iwo Jima

Two US Marines attacking with flamethrowers on Iwo Jima, Japan, 4 Mar 1945	A Curtiss R5C Commando after releasing parachute packs with supplies for construction units repairing the main airstrip on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands. Mar 6, 1945. Note B-29 Superfortress on the ground.

Alaska's Chief Quartermaster John P. Overholt took a sun sighting with a sextant, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945; taking notes on the observations was QM3/c Clark R. Bartholomew	An LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) loaded with troops shoves off from the troop transport and heads toward the shore at Iwo Jima, Mar 6, 1945.

Crew of a 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine gun mount of Alaska loaded clips into the loaders of the left pair of guns, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945	Gunner's Mate First Class Carrick N. Thomas passed a clip of four 40mm rounds through a hatch in a 40mm handling room of Alaska, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

Navy Ensign Jane Kendeigh was the first flight nurse to arrive on Iwo Jima, Japan, 6 Mar, 1945. She would also serve on Okinawa, Japan.	One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes taxiing up to the landing mat streamed alongside, to be picked up by the aircraft crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes waited for pickup by the ship's crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945	Aerial view of Kitano Point, the northern tip of Iwo Jima, Japan, 7 Mar 1945; photo taken from an aircraft of USS Anzio

Aerial view of southern Iwo Jima, Japan, 7 Mar 1945; photo taken from an aircraft of USS Anzio	View of an airfield on Iwo Jima, Japan, 7 Mar 1945; photo taken from an aircraft of USS Anzio