Aerial reconnaissance photo of Japanese anti-aircraft guns on Iwo Jima prior to the19 February 1945 invasion

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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535.Photograph 'File No: 48161 February 20, 1945 Anti-aircraft dotted Iwo's shores Across the top of these almost invincible rocky crags which guarded Iwo Jima, anti-aircraft gun emplacements may be seen in this pre-invasion reconnaissance photograph, daring for its low-level angle. U. S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima February 19, 1945.' 20 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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Iō-jima
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24.783
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141.333
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Aerial views--Iwo Jima
Military reconnaissance--American-Iwo Jima
Antiaircraft guns--Japanese--Iwo Jima