General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. BOMBARDMENT OF IWO JIMA

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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

1945

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1) GV Landing craft & DD close in shore to Iwo Jima; island smokes BG.2) MS-Pan Through aerial wires of AGC showing LSTs, LCIs & small boats off Mt. Suribachi, BB firing BG-SV.3) LS Smoking shoreline of Iwo Jima, landing craft FG.4) MS Signalman at blinker at rail, gun director in position at rail.5) GV Night scene: Evening sky, silhouette of aerial wires, men on AGC FG. blinker signals6) MS TBF in flight drops message attached to chute.7) GV Formation of planes fly over superstructure of AGC, revolving radar antennae in scene.8) GV APA & landing craft off Iwo Jima, small boats circle in rendezvous area.9) HS-MS Signalman signals with flags.10) HS Men at gun director drink coffee while conditioning one.11) LS Mt. Suribachi & Iwo Jima showing explosions, smoke columns & water splashes-SV.12) HS-CU Secretary of the Navy. Forrestal uses bincos.13) LS-GV Iwo Jima showing DDs, landing craft & AP off shore, explosions & smoke columns seen on beach.14) LS-Pan Iwo Jima, BB, landing craft & AP off shore, explosions & smoke columns on beach.15) LS Mt. Suribachi, LCIs, LSTs & small boats FG.QUALITY: GENERALLY FAIR, SOME SHAKY, UX.

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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...