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Iwo Jima Airfield
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Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on Iwo Jima. She was present within nine days of the first Marine assault on February 19, 1945. The fighting there, which was among the bloodiest battles in U.S. Marine history, did not end until March.
February 1945
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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Iwo Jima Airfield
February 1945
Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. This image is one of many of the long battl...
Flight Nurse and Wounded
March 1945
At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the U.S. flag was first flown ten days before,...
Iwo Jima Medical Facilities
March 1945
Medical facilities, Iwo Jima plus nine. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle in the aftermath of the landing at Iwo Jima.
Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima
February 1945
A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
Wounded Marine on Ship Deck
circa 1945-02
A wounded Marine lays on a stretcher on the deck of the USS "Samaritan" in Iwo Jima. The man later died.
Fresh Casualty
1945
Marine corporal with his arm in a sling after being shot in the upper arm at Iwo Jima. Another wounded soldier sits beside him with a bandage on his head.
