Scratch One Zero
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Scratch One Zero
ca. 1944
Gelatin silver print
Paper: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Gift of Joanna T. Steichen, ex-collection Edward Steichen
Inscriptions printed in ink on verso: FILE NO: 48160 RELEASED: February 20, 1945/
SCRATCH ONE ZERO: One Jap ZERO which will offer no resistance to Yanks assaulting/ Iwo Jima lies motorless on a plain behind the beaches. This daring low-level/ photograph, made before the invasion, shows nature of terrain which greeted the/ Marines after they scaled the slopes in the background. Nothing but shell holes/ from pre-landing bombardment is available for cover from the devastating/ enemy mortar and cannon fire. A U.S. Army P-38 skims the tree-tops at right./ On February 19, 1945, Marines stormed the island./
RELEASED BY THE U.S. NAVY/
OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY PHOTOGRAPH/
SCRATCH ONE ZERO: One Jap ZERO which will offer no resistance to Yanks assaulting/ Iwo Jima lies motorless on a plain behind the beaches. This daring low-level/ photograph, made before the invasion, shows nature of terrain which greeted the/ Marines after they scaled the slopes in the background. Nothing but shell holes/ from pre-landing bombardment is available for cover from the devastating/ enemy mortar and cannon fire. A U.S. Army P-38 skims the tree-tops at right./ On February 19, 1945, Marines stormed the island./
RELEASED BY THE U.S. NAVY/
OFFICIAL U.S. ARMY PHOTOGRAPH/
