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Wilbert Berry "When we swept mines at Iwo and Okinawa we went in four days early at Iwo and eight days early at Okinawa. As I recall the big guns didn't show up until much later and our so-called protection stayed way out." The answer to the question about night firing was to shoot star shells behind the attacking planes so they were outlined but you stayed in the dark. Most of the battles were in the daytime anyway." |
Maps and Images of Iwo Jima
Please note that some of these maps are fairly large. I tried reducing their sizes as much as possible while maintaining readability.
[Iwo Jima from the air] [The war in February, 1945]
Many of these maps are from http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/
Map_collection/Map_collection.html
Images of the battle for Iwo Jima
The pictures described in this list are from the holdings of the Still Picture Branch (NNSP) of the National Archives and Records Administration. Most are from the records of the Army Signal Corps in Record Group (RG) 111, the Department of the Navy in RG 80, the Coast Guard in RG 26, the Marine Corps in RG 127, and the Office of War Information in RG 208. Others were selected from the records of 12 additional agencies. Most World War II Air Force photographs are not in the National Archives. [http://www.nara.gov/nara/nn/nns/ww2photo.html]
"Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Yama as the smoke of the battle drifts about them." Dreyfuss, Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945. 127-N-110249. (ww2153.jpg)
"Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Jap positions cleverly concealed back from the beaches. Here, a gun pumps a stream of shells into Jap positions inland on the tiny volcanic island." Ca. February 1945. 26-G-4122. (ww2154.jpg)
"Smashed by Jap mortar and shellfire, trapped by Iwo's treacherous black-ash sands, amtracs and other vehicles of war lay knocked out on the black sands of the volcanic fortress." PhoM3c. Robert M. Warren, ca. February/March 1945. 26-G-4474. (ww2155.jpg)
"Flag raising on Iwo Jima." Joe Rosenthal, Associated Press, February 23, 1945. 80-G-413988. (ww2156.jpg)
A Quicktime movie of Iwo Jima (iwojima.mov) 1.3MB
Iwo Jima Links
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/3758/iwojima.htm contains a good description of the situation around the struggle for Iwo Jima.