General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. BOMBARDMENT OF IWO JIMA: ADM. TURNER, SECNAV amp; GEN. SMITH ON FLAG BRIDGE

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. BOMBARDMENT OF IWO JIMA: ADM. TURNER, SECNAV amp; GEN. SMITH ON FLAG BRIDGE

1945

1) MS-MCU Secretary of the Navy Forrestal, Adm. Turner & Gen. Smith on bridge of USS ELDORADO, they converse, use binocs, etc-SV.2) LS Iwo Jima shoreline, wave of landing boats underway toward beach, also LSTs & other landing craft.3) LS Mt. Suribachi, LSTs FG.4) MS LSMs & LCIs underway framed in king-posts of AGC, also helmets of men FG-SV.5) LS-Pan Shoreline (not Iwo Jima), AOs FG also signal flags & silhouettes of men.6) MS AK underway, shoreline BG, signal flags & deck of AGC FG.7) MS-CU Adm. Turner, Secretary of the Navy Forrestal & Gen. Smith on flag bridge of USS ELDORADO: they converse, use binocs etc., Iwo Jima & landing activities BG.8) CU Secretary of the Navy. Forrestal smokes pipe on flag bridge of USS ELDORADO.QUALITY: GENERALLY GOOD, SOME OUT OF FOCUS.

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Forrestal, James, 1892-1949

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James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 – May 22, 1949) was the last Cabinet-level United States Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal came from a very strict middle class Irish Catholic family. He was a successful financier on Wall Street before becoming Undersecretary of the Navy in 1940, shortly before the United States entered the Second World War. He became Secretary of the Navy in May 1944 upon the death of his superior, Frank Knox. Preside...

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Smith, Holland M. (Holland McTyeire), 1882-1967

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