Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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US Marines on Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	US Navy doctors and corpsmen administer to the wounded at a first aid station, Iwo Jima, Japan, 20 Feb 1945; Chaplain Lieutenant (jg) John H. Galbreath kneeling in right center of photo

View looking out over an Iwo Jima beach, 20 Feb 1945	Wounded US Marine being helped by a comrade, Iwo Jima, Japan, 20 Feb 1945

A group of F6F Hellcat fighters supporting ground troops on Iwo Jima, 21 Feb 1945	Aerial photo of wrecked American landing craft at Iwo Jima Beach, 21 Feb 1945

Aerial photograph of Mount Suribachi with Iwo Jima's Beach Green One beyond, circa 20-28 Feb 1945	An American ammunition dump exploded after being hit by Japanese artillery, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945

An American warship making a night-time bombardment on Japanese positions ashore on the island of Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	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

Burrowed in his shallow foxhole at the edge of Motoyama airstrip on Iwo Jima, an US Marine communicator called for artillery support, Feb 1945	Carrier Bismarck Sea erupted in flames as she was hit by a special attack aircraft off Iwo Jima, night of 21 Feb 1945

Japanese Type 1 Kaitens on the deck of mother-sub I-370 at the Japanese Kaiten base at Otsujima in Japan’s Inland Sea, 21 Feb 1945.	LCVP from LST-713 off northern Iwo Jima, Feb 1945

LSM-140 unloading on a southeastern Iwo Jima beach, circa 21-22 Feb 1945	Men of 3rd Battalion, US 23rd Marine Regiment at a destroyed Japanese pillbox, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945

Mired LVT(A) on Iwo Jima beach, circa 21-22 Feb 1945	Officers of the US Fifth Marine Division directed the operations from a sandbagged position, Iwo Jima, 21 Feb 1945

US Marine 37mm gun firing on Japanese positions on the northern slope of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima in support of RCT 28, 21 Feb 1945	US Marine communicators dashed for cover, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945