Marine milking a goat found on Iwo Jima on March 1945

U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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544.Photograph 'File Number: TR-13271 Released: June 1, 1945 Fresh milk on Iwo Jima The only Japanese livestock found on Iwo Jima, a white goat, is held by war correspondent T. J. Maloney while a Marine milks.' Probably March 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: 
Goats--Iwo Jima
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Dairying--Iwo Jima