Navy photographer on Iwo Jima, Capt. Ed. J. Steichen, head of the Navy's combat photography and director of the Naval Photographic Institute. Capt. Steichen and Corp. Wm. Damato.
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- 1945-03
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,054 pixels
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