Aerial photo of damaged Japanese aircraft on Iwo Jima 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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537.Photograph 'File Number: 48146 Feb. 19, 1945 Jap [Japanese] Planes that didn't resist Marine assault on Iwo Jima Smashed by bombs dropped by carrier-based Navy planes, Jap [Japanese] aircraft on Iwo Jima lie shattered and burning on the airstrip on the strategic island today the scene of a determined attack by members of the Fifth Amphibious Corps of the U. S. Marines. This photograph was made during an earlier Navy strike at the base.' 19 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:
Aerial views--Iwo Jima
War damage--Iwo Jima