Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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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

Large explosion at the northern base of Mount Suribachi, probably during the pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	LCMs and LVTs off Blue Beach, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LCS(L) off Iwo Jima's eastern shore during the initial landings, 19 Feb 1945	LCS(L), in right center, bombarding the shore, probably during the pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LCS(L)-31 or LCS(L)-36 and a LCVP operating off Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945	Light cruiser Vincennes and two Fletcher-class destroyers off Iwo Jima in the morning of 19 Feb 1945

LSMs off Iwo Jima's eastern beaches, 19 Feb 1945; note the one on left was hit and was afire and M4 Sherman tanks on the beach	LVT landers carried US Marines past battleship Tennessee toward Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LVTs headed for landing beaches on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	LVTs off Iwo Jima with cruiser Vincennes and a Fletcher-class destroyer in background, 19 Feb 1945

LVTs underway off an Iwo Jima beach currently under bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	LVTs underway off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LVTs underway off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	M4 Sherman tanks and Americans on an Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945

Marines crouched in a Coast Guard-manned LCVP on the way in on the first wave to hit the beach at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	Marines crouched in a Coast Guard-manned LCVP on the way in on the first wave to hit the beach at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2

Marines in a LCVP off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Men of the US 4th Marines rushing out of their landing craft for Iwo Jima landing beach, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2; note LVT burning in right center