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Description:Invasion wreckage. This is a section of the beach where Marines stormed ashore on Iwo Jima, as it appeared one day after D-Day. Wreckage of landing craft along the shoreline testifies to the stiff opposition put up by the defending Japanese. (National Archives, USMC 110,252).
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