D-Day Finds A Shambles On Iwo Jima's Beaches
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D-Day Finds A Shambles On Iwo Jima's Beaches
February 1945
Gelatin silver print
19.4 x 24.1 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "4123" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"D-Day Finds A Shambles On Iwo Jima's Beaches" "Amtracs from Coast
Guard-manned LST's carrying Fourth Division Marines poke through the
wreckage to crawl up on the blackened sands of Iwo Jima. At right is a
shattered Jap transport, shelled to destruction by the terrific pre-
invasion bombardment of U.S. Navy guns. American equipment, caught in
a cross-fire from hidden Jap positions, bogged down in the ..."
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"D-Day Finds A Shambles On Iwo Jima's Beaches" "Amtracs from Coast
Guard-manned LST's carrying Fourth Division Marines poke through the
wreckage to crawl up on the blackened sands of Iwo Jima. At right is a
shattered Jap transport, shelled to destruction by the terrific pre-
invasion bombardment of U.S. Navy guns. American equipment, caught in
a cross-fire from hidden Jap positions, bogged down in the ..."
