[Attack from Iwo Jima on D-day]

[Attack from Iwo Jima on D-day]

Photograph

H. Neil Gillespie

Maker
American

[Attack from Iwo Jima on D-day]

ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
1974.0025.0057
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on recto TC: 110109

inscribed in crayon on recto BL,BC,BR: editing marks on print

in negative on recto BR: USMC and emblem

printed in ink on verso: AN ATTACK BEGINS-- A wave of Fourth Division Marines begins the/ attack from the beach at Iwo Jima on D-day, as another boatload/ of battle-tested veterans is landed on the beach by an assault craft./

Hdqrs. No. 110,109/ WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE
DIST LIST Stock/ OFFICIAL U.S. MARINE CORPS PHOTO/
By Technical Sgt. H. Neil Gillespie./
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