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As shells exploded on Iwo Jima beach, LVTs approached, 19 Feb 1945 | Battleship Idaho fired her 5-inch gun at shore targets on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 |
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Battleship Tennessee and a Fletcher-class destroyer provide gunfire support while LVTs raced for the beaches of Iwo Jima, morning of 19 Feb 1945 | Battleship Tennessee and other American ships firing on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 |
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Battleship Tennessee bombarding the base of Mount Suribachi before the initial landings, causing a huge explosion, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | 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 |
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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 2 of 2 | Battleship Tennessee off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 |
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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 |
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Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver with Bombing Squadron VB-80 returning to the USS Hancock after flying close ground support strikes in support of the Marines landing on 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Explosions just off the beach on Iwo Jima during the pre-invasion bombardment, 19 Feb 1945 | Explosions near shore, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 |
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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 |
100 items in this album on 5 pages.