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Following an attack from Japanese special attack aircraft, fires grew in the forward hangar deck of USS Saratoga off Iwo Jima, 21 Feb 1945. The fires increased greatly before they could be controlled. Photo 2 of 3	Following an attack from Japanese special attack aircraft, fires grew in the forward hangar deck of USS Saratoga off Iwo Jima, 21 Feb 1945. The fires increased greatly before they could be controlled. Photo 3 of 3	Japanese Type 1 Kaitens on the deck of mother-sub I-370 at the Japanese Kaiten base at Otsujima in Japan’s Inland Sea, 21 Feb 1945.	LCVP from LST-713 off northern Iwo Jima, Feb 1945

LSM-140 unloading on a southeastern Iwo Jima beach, circa 21-22 Feb 1945	Men of 3rd Battalion, US 23rd Marine Regiment at a destroyed Japanese pillbox, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	Mired LVT(A) on Iwo Jima beach, circa 21-22 Feb 1945	Officers of the US Fifth Marine Division directed the operations from a sandbagged position, Iwo Jima, 21 Feb 1945

US Marine 37mm gun firing on Japanese positions on the northern slope of Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima in support of RCT 28, 21 Feb 1945	US Marine communicators dashed for cover, Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	US Marine M4 Sherman tank mired in soft volcanic sand, Iwo Jima, Japan, 21 Feb 1945	US Marine on Mount Suribachi, with landing craft in the background, Iwo Jima, Japan, 19-23 Feb 1945

US Marine Private Kenneth R. Hager with his pin-up decorated flamethrower pack, off Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	US Marines digging in on a beach at Iwo Jima, Japan, 21 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	US Marines digging in on a beach at Iwo Jima, Japan, 21 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2	US military using demolition charges to clear destroyed vehicles from Iwo Jima beach, Japan, 21 Feb 1945

Wounded US Marine Corporal W. H. Porter being prepared for evacuation, Iwo Jima, Japan, 21 Feb 1945	A LCVP loaded with troops sailed on foreground while American ships beyond burned, off Iwo Jima, Feb 1945	Aerial view of Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb 1945	Americans Major Richard Fagan and Captain Pierson of 3rd Battalion, 26th Marines studied aerial photos, Iwo Jima, morning of 22 Feb 1945