WW2 Photographs in Color | World War II Database

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Battleship Tennessee and a Fletcher-class destroyer provide gunfire support while LVTs raced for the beaches of Iwo Jima, morning of 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee and other American ships firing on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee bombarding the base of Mount Suribachi before the initial landings, causing a huge explosion, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2

Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	Battleship Tennessee off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Crew of a 30 caliber machine gun watched as Americans worked on an Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945	Cruisers Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Indianapolis, and an unidentified Cleveland-class cruiser bombarding Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Dense smoke shrouded Mount Suribachi as LVTs left the beaches during the initial day of landings, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions and fires on the beach and inland on Iwo Jima, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions and yellow signal smoke just offshore and on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	Explosions and yellow signal smoke just offshore and on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2

Explosions at the beach edge, with smoke rising from other hits just inland on Iwo Jima, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions just off the beach on Iwo Jima during the pre-invasion bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions near shore, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Explosions near the Iwo Jima shore, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, circa 19 Feb 1945

Explosions on an Iwo Jima beach, with smoke from other blasts drifting down wind, probably during the pre-landing bombardment, 19 Feb 1945	Helmeted crewman in a landing craft watched as a Fletcher-class destroyer shelled Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Iwo Jima under bombardment, as seen from USS Sanborn, 19 Feb 1945	Landing craft underway off Iwo Jima's eastern shore during the initial day of landings, 19 Feb 1945