80-G-304828:  Battle for Iwo Jima, February-March 1945. Crewmen of LSM as they stuffed their mattresses into a hole blown in the side of their craft off Iwo Jima to keep her afloat long enough to reach the beach.  The hose at the right is from a pump, trying to keep abreast of the rising water in the hole.  Photograph released February 26, 1945.  U.S. Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2016/01/19).
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