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Description 127-GW-306-110288: Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March 1945. Marines Pinned Down. Because of heavy sniper fire, these Marines are pinned down momentarily. The Japanese front lines which are a few hundred feet to the left, were destroyed by these Marines. Empty stretchers can be seen, at the time this picture was taken but thirty minutes later these same stretchers had wounded Marines in them and were on their way back to the First Aid Station. Photographed 1945. U.S. Marine Corps photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2016/02/17).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/25071579786 (archive). It was reviewed on 10 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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