[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]
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[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]

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Photograph

[Bombardment of Iwo Jima]

ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions inscribed in pencil on verso in BR: CW-1-28/ 307142
inscribed in crayon on verso in TC: underlining of text "Iwo Jima"
stamped in ink on verso in C: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH/ NOT TO BE USED FOR PUBLICATION/ BY ORDER OF/ THE CHIEF OF THE BUREAU/ OF AERONAUTICS/
CONFIDENTIAL

printed in ink on verso: BuAer 307142/
Takesn from USS NEVADA during the bombardment of the Island of Iwo Jima. Feb 17, 1945./ Photographer--- Hoseph[sic] J. McGuire PhoM3c./ Another wave of our invasion forces hitting the beach _0905)./


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