Soldiers eating aboard ship while en route to Iwo Jima on Feburary 1945
U.S. Navy Official photograph, Gift of Charles Ives, from the Collection of The National World War II Museum
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528.Photograph "File Number: 306206 Released: April 7, 1945 En route to Iwo Jima Chow is served cafeteria style aboard a Navy warship en route to participate in the attack on Iwo Jima in the Pacific. Formality is dispensed with to as great a degree as possible commensurate with the necessary minimum of discipline." 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:
Soldiers--American--Iwo Jima
Eating & drinking--Iwo Jima
Warships--American--Iwo Jima