Marines, covered with their ponchos, lie on the Iwo Jima beach they gave their lives to win in 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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555.Photograph 'CinCPac 8051 Released: March 4, 1945 The Power and the Price The power of the invasion armada (background) stands out in ironic contrast with the scene on the Iwo Jima beach. Marines of the Third Division, covered with their ponchos, lie on the beach they gave their lives to win. A few thousand yards away the battle was still on.' 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
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Beaches--Iwo Jima
Dead persons--Iwo Jima
War casualties--Iwo Jima
Landing craft--American--Iwo Jima
Military vehicles--American--Iwo Jima
Tents--Iwo Jima