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Iwo Jima landings

Iwo Jima landings

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Men of US Marines, Second Battalion, Seventh Regiment waited to move inland on Iwo Jima, soon after going ashore, 19 Feb 1945.

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teufelhunden (Fri 18 Nov 2011 09:12:20 PM EST)

Do you mean the 27th Marines? The 7th Marines were and still are part of the 1st Marine Division. The 1st Marine Division did not fight on Iwo Jima. They did fight in the following campign on Okinawa.

GrandsonofWW2 (Tue 20 Sep 2011 07:19:39 AM EDT)

'Rah.

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Credit: United States Navy Naval History and Heritage Command

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