Assault on Iwo Jima
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
Assault on 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 on recto in crayon TR: Iwo
printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER: 304779 RELEASED: MARCH 14, 1945/
ASSAULT ON IWO JIMA -- Grim milestone on the Tokyo Road, the attack on/ Iwo Jima was a complex and highly-coordinated operation involving/ exact planning for hundreds of ships and planes and thoughsands of/ men. So exact was the timetable, the Marines hit the beach only seconds/ off the hour chosen at the strategy board long before the operation./ The Japs fought bitterly from the near-invulnerable positions, and the/ Marines paid a high cost: but from the moment of the opening bombardment,/ the battled rolled relentlessly on according to plan./
Gray against the gray sea and sky, a mammoth Navy battleship hurls its/ obliterating fire against volcanic Iwo Jima. The time: morning of/ D-Day. February 19, 1945./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commerical/ advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to publication to the "REVIEW SECTION, OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT/ WASHINGTON D.C.," [illegible] or to a District Public Relations Office. However it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
printed in ink on verso: FILE NUMBER: 304779 RELEASED: MARCH 14, 1945/
ASSAULT ON IWO JIMA -- Grim milestone on the Tokyo Road, the attack on/ Iwo Jima was a complex and highly-coordinated operation involving/ exact planning for hundreds of ships and planes and thoughsands of/ men. So exact was the timetable, the Marines hit the beach only seconds/ off the hour chosen at the strategy board long before the operation./ The Japs fought bitterly from the near-invulnerable positions, and the/ Marines paid a high cost: but from the moment of the opening bombardment,/ the battled rolled relentlessly on according to plan./
Gray against the gray sea and sky, a mammoth Navy battleship hurls its/ obliterating fire against volcanic Iwo Jima. The time: morning of/ D-Day. February 19, 1945./
WATCH YOUR CREDIT/
"OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH"/
The Navy Department has no objection to the use of this photograph in commerical/ advertisements, provided copy and layout are submitted for review prior to publication to the "REVIEW SECTION, OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS, NAVY DEPARTMENT/ WASHINGTON D.C.," [illegible] or to a District Public Relations Office. However it has no/ power to waive the privacy rights of the personnel portrayed./
