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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

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	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 bringing elements of the 4th Marine Division to the landing beaches at Iwo Jima at H-hour on D-day, 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