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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

Cruisers Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Indianapolis, and an unidentified Cleveland-class cruiser bombarding Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Dense smoke shrouded Mount Suribachi as LVTs left the beaches during the initial day of landings, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Explosions and fires on the beach and inland on Iwo Jima, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions and yellow signal smoke just offshore and on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2

Explosions and yellow signal smoke just offshore and on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	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

Explosions just off the beach on Iwo Jima during the pre-invasion bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions near shore, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Explosions near the Iwo Jima shore, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, circa 19 Feb 1945	Explosions on an Iwo Jima beach, with smoke from other blasts drifting down wind, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945

Fifth Division Marines moving inland off the beach, after coming ashore on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945; note Mount Suribachi in background	Helmeted crewman in a landing craft watched as a Fletcher-class destroyer shelled Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Iwo Jima under bombardment, as seen from USS Sanborn, 19 Feb 1945	Killed US Marines on the beaches of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945

Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Landing craft underway off Iwo Jima's eastern shore during the initial day of landings, 19 Feb 1945