Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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US naval transports off Iwo Jima, late Feb 1945	US Marine hauling an ammunition cart on Iwo Jima invasion beach, Japan, 19 Feb 1945

A .30 caliber Browning water-cooled machine gun and its crew on Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A Douglas R4D (C-47) transport plane (center) loading wounded Marines on Iwo Jima's South Field bound for a Navy hospital on Guam, Mar 1945. Note Mount Suribachi to the left.

A machine gun nest and its resting crew, Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	A Marine "Oly" (OY-1 Sentinel) landing on Iwo Jima, Mar 1945.

A regimental command post at Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945	A US Marine threw a grenade at enemy sheltered in a northern Iwo Jima cave, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Abandoned Japanese Type 1 medium tank on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945	Aerial view of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands with the relatively flat island plain beyond, Feb or Mar 1945 as the battle raged on. Note landing ships beached at right.

African-American US Marines Willie J. Kanody, Elif Hill, and John Alexander on a beach at Iwo Jima, Mar 1945	An explosion on Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945. Note two M-3 Halftrack personnel carriers.

Brigadier General Franklin Hart and Major General Clifton Cates studying a map, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	Brigadier General Franklin Hart, Major General Clifton Cates, and an unidentified officer (right, with glasses) at Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

C-47 or R4D aircraft delivering mail to US Marines in southern Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945	Captain Edward Steichen, head of the Navy’s combat photography and Director of the Naval Photographic Institute, right, speaking with US Marine Corporal William Damato on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, Mar 1945

Catholic mass atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, for American Marines, circa Feb or Mar 1945	Chaplain John Craven of US 14th Marine Regiment with four men of US Army 476th Amphibious Truck Company whom he had just baptized, Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945

Chaplains Strum, Sartelle, Sneary, Barney, Hoatling, John Craven, Singer, and Wood of US 4th Marine Division at the division's cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945	Clifton Cates in conference with his staff officers and regimental commanders, aboard a ship off Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945