File:Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, 1945 (5600761258).jpg

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Photo caption: America's Might: Symbolic of American power in the Pacific is this Marine at a battered Japanese antiaircraft gun outlined against Iwo's Motoyama airfield number one, on which rests the first B-29 that landed on the island. Crippled during a raid on Japan, the giant bomber effected an emergency landing on the unfinished strip.

From the K.T. Soule Collection at the Marine Corps Archives and Special Collections

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Author USMC Archives from Quantico, USA
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections at https://flickr.com/photos/60868061@N04/5600761258. It was reviewed on 27 August 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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