An LSM unloads its cargo of supplies on the Iwo Jima beachhead on 21 February 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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546.Photograph 'CinCPac-POA AH-70 February 23, 1945 'Unloading of supplies is continuing. . . .' An LSM, with its bow to the beach, disgorges its cargo of supplies on the Iwo Jima beachhead, February 21st. Amtracks and ducks swim in along side and then climb up on the shore, while marines and in the unloading process (center) or rest in foxholes (top)'( Last sentence is missing a few words) 23 February 1945
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The Charles Ives Collection consists of 719 photographs from the Pacific Theater of WWII. Many of the photographs were taken between 1944 and 1945. Mr. Ives inherited the photographs from a friend from Marblehead, Massachusetts who served as an aviator in the Army Air Corps and discharged as a Major in 1945.
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IÅ-jima
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24.783
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141.333
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Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
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Beaches--Iwo Jima
Coastlines--Iwo Jima