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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Landing craft underway off Iwo Jima's eastern shore during the initial day of landings, 19 Feb 1945 | Large explosion at the northern base of Mount Suribachi, probably during the pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | LCMs and LVTs off Blue Beach, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | LCS(L) off Iwo Jima's eastern shore during the initial landings, 19 Feb 1945 |
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| LCS(L), in right center, bombarding the shore, probably during the pre-landing bombardment of Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | LCS(L)-31 or LCS(L)-36 and a LCVP operating off Iwo Jima beach, 19 Feb 1945 | Light cruiser Vincennes and two Fletcher-class destroyers off Iwo Jima in the morning of 19 Feb 1945 | LSMs off Iwo Jima's eastern beaches, 19 Feb 1945; note the one on left was hit and was afire and M4 Sherman tanks on the beach |
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| LVTs headed for landing beaches on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | LVTs off Iwo Jima with cruiser Vincennes and a Fletcher-class destroyer in background, 19 Feb 1945 | LVTs underway off an Iwo Jima beach currently under bombardment, 19 Feb 1945 | LVTs underway off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 |
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