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| Lieutenant (jg) Lewis entering a F4F Wildcat fighter aboard USS Anzio, Pacific Ocean, 23 Feb 1945 | LSM-238 unloading on an Iwo Jima Beach, Japan, circa 21-25 Feb 1945 |
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| Men of 28th Regiment, US 5th Marine Division putting up the first flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, at 1020 hours on 23 Feb 1945; note M1 Carbine | Raising the US flag atop Mount Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal, Iwo Jima, Japan, 23 Feb 1945 |
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| Aerial view of Iwo Jima and Mt Suribachi looking across the southern point and the landing beeches to the supply ship staging area, 24 Feb 1945, five days after the initial landings. | USS Tambor, USS Ray, USS Greenling, USS Cero (barely visible), and USS Raton (barely visible) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 24 Feb 1945 |
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| A bulldozer preparing a roadway as LSM-47 opened her cargo bay doors, Green Beach, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa 25 Feb 1945 | Landing ships and craft unloading on Iwo Jima's eastern beaches, 25 Feb 1945; photo taken from atop Mount Suribachi |
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| LSM-47 unloading on an Iwo Jima beach, circa 25 Feb 1945 | Medical officer of the 535th Bomb Squadron, Capt Graham, congratulating pilot Lt Biene of B-17G Fortress ‘Stage Door Canteen,’ on the bomber’s 100th mission, 25 Feb 1945 at Ridgewell, Essex, England, United Kingdom. |
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| P-47D Thunderbolt 'Torrid Tessie' of the 346th Fighter Squadron and flown by USAAF 1Lt Homer St. Onge flying over Italy, Feb 25, 1945 | Supplies being unloaded onto Beach Red One from LSM-141, LSM-43, and LSM-47, Iwo Jima, 25 Feb 1945 |
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| US Marines laying a pierced steel matting roadway on Red Beach, Iwo Jima, Japan, 25 Feb 1945 | Vehicles on Iwo Jima's Red Beach, circa 25 Feb 1945; LST-884 and LST-929 in background |
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| A captured Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945 | American Marines fed Japanese POWs K rations, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945 |
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| Louisville's SOC Seagull pilots Ens William C. Orr, Ens Arnold Sheiner, and Lt (JG) Austin J. Trinkle receiving Air Medals, 26 Feb 1945; note Pharmacist's Mate in background with Purple Heart medal | The 401st Bomb Group’s control tower at RAF Deenethorpe, Northamptonshire, England, UK, Feb 26 1945. Note a US Navy Captain among the group of observers. |
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| Two Americans walked by a temporary grave of a fellow Marine made of the fallen's rifle and helmet, Feb 1945 | US Fifth Marine Division riflemen waited while a fellow Marine burned out a Japanese-held cave with flame thrower, Iwo Jima, 26 Feb 1945 |
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