Iwo Jima 1965 Photo Album

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image of crater - sunset

image of old and new buildings

Iwo Jima September 1965
The crater of Mt. Suribachi taken near sunset.

 

Iwo Jima September 1965
The old and the new. Old typhoon shelter (a Japanese bunker) and the base buildings in background offer a strking contrast. Needless to say -- there are a "few shell holes" on the surface of the bunker.

 

image of bomber pillbox

image of sulfur pits

Iwo Jima September 1965
A Japanese pillbox defending the west beach. The position was made from the stripped hull of an old Japanese light bomber.

Iwo Jima September 1965
Sulfur pits located on the west beach. The concrete barges are located in the background .

 

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