Photos Taken in Japan | World War II Database

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US Marines observing dead Japanese soldiers in a cave on Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	US Marines PFC. J. L. Hudson, Pvt. K. L. Lofter, PFC. Paul V. Parces, Pvt. Fred Sizemore, PFC. Henrey Noviech, and Pvt. Richard N. Pearson posing with a captured Japanese flag, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	Vehicles on Iwo Jima's Red Beach, circa 25 Feb 1945; LST-884 and LST-929 in background	View of the invasion beach and Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945

A captured Japanese soldier, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	American Marines fed Japanese POWs K rations, Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	Two Americans walked by a temporary grave of a fellow Marine made of the fallen's rifle and helmet, Feb 1945	US Fifth Marine Division riflemen waited while a fellow Marine burned out a Japanese-held cave with flame thrower, Iwo Jima, 26 Feb 1945

M4 Sherman 'Cairo' disabled by land mine, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945; note heavy wooden side planking meant to protect against magnetic demolition charges.	Aerial photograph of Iwo Jima's east landing beaches as LSTs, LSMs, and LCTs unloaded supplies, circa late Feb 1945	Burial at sea for a casualty of the battle for Iwo Jima aboard troop transport USS Hansford while she was evacuating wounded men to Saipan, 25-28 February 1945.	Destroyed American amtracs and other vehicles on beach of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb-Mar 1945

Four US Marines cleared out a cave with BAR, small arms, and grenades, Iwo Jima, circa Feb-Mar 1945	Iwo Jima landing beach, cluttered with abandoned vehicles and other debris, circa late Feb 1945	LCMs broached in the surf (the left most one was from USS Belle Grove LSD-2) and LVTs and other vehicles on Blue Beach, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa late Feb 1945	LSDs and other amphibious ships off Iwo Jima, circa late Feb 1945

LST-764 unloading on an Iwo Jima beach, circa late Feb 1945	Scene on a Iwo Jima beach, as supplies were unloaded and trucked inland, circa late Feb 1945	US Marine rocket-launching trucks in action on Iwo Jima, Japan, 28 Feb 1945; note Mk 7 rocket launcher firing 4.5-inch beach barrage rockets	US Marines Sergeant B. D. Boyant and Corporal Kenneth E. Hales setting up the 4th Marine Division's post office on Iwo Jima, late Feb 1945