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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Iwo Jima under bombardment, as seen from USS Sanborn, 19 Feb 1945 | Killed US Marines on the beaches of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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