Supplies Pour Onto Iwo Jima Beachhead
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Supplies Pour Onto Iwo Jima Beachhead
ca. 1945
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in crayon on verso: underlining of text "Iwo Jima"
printed on verso: 4098/
FROM:/
PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION/
U.S. COAST GUARD/
WASHINGTON, D.C./
OFFICIAL COAST GUARD PHOTO/
SUPPLIES POUR ONTO IWO JIMA BEACHHEAD/
OUT OF THE GAPING MOUTHS OF COAST GUARD-MANNED AND NAVY LANDING/
CRAFT ROSE THE GREAT FLOW OF INVASION SUPPLIES TO THE BLACKENED/
SANDS OF IWO JIMA, A FEW HOURS AFTER THE MARINES HAD WRESTED/
THEIR FOOTHOLD ON THE VITAL ISLAND IN THE FRONT YARD OF TOKYO/
UNDER RAKING FIRE FROM EMPLACEMENTS CONCEALED AT EACH END OF/
FUTATSUNE BEACH, THE EARLY WAVES SECURED A BEACHHEAD BUT SUFFERED/ HEAVY CASUALTIES.
***
IN REWRITING CAPTIONS PLEASE MENTION "COAST GUARD."/
printed on verso: 4098/
FROM:/
PUBLIC RELATIONS DIVISION/
U.S. COAST GUARD/
WASHINGTON, D.C./
OFFICIAL COAST GUARD PHOTO/
SUPPLIES POUR ONTO IWO JIMA BEACHHEAD/
OUT OF THE GAPING MOUTHS OF COAST GUARD-MANNED AND NAVY LANDING/
CRAFT ROSE THE GREAT FLOW OF INVASION SUPPLIES TO THE BLACKENED/
SANDS OF IWO JIMA, A FEW HOURS AFTER THE MARINES HAD WRESTED/
THEIR FOOTHOLD ON THE VITAL ISLAND IN THE FRONT YARD OF TOKYO/
UNDER RAKING FIRE FROM EMPLACEMENTS CONCEALED AT EACH END OF/
FUTATSUNE BEACH, THE EARLY WAVES SECURED A BEACHHEAD BUT SUFFERED/ HEAVY CASUALTIES.
***
IN REWRITING CAPTIONS PLEASE MENTION "COAST GUARD."/
