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.
- Date
- 1945
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,767 × 2,640 pixels
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