Photo, Print, Drawing Military Transport Boats at Iwo Jima.
About this Item
Title
- Military Transport Boats at Iwo Jima.
Summary
- This impressionistic painting of military transport boats approaching Iwo Jima is the work of Harry Reeks (1921-82), an official Marine Corps combat artist who sketched battles in the Pacific during World War II. He arrived at Iwo Jima with the invasion force and spent 30 days there drawing the campaign. The battle for Iwo Jima, from February 19, 1945, to March 26, 1945, was one of the fiercest in the Pacific campaign of the war, and is best remembered for the iconic photograph of Marines raising the flag on the island. The painting is part of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at the Brown University Library, the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and one of the world's largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.
Names
- Reeks, Harry D., 1921-1982 Artist.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1945 to 1982]
Headings
- - Japan
- - 1945
- - Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
- - Military operations, Naval
- - Naval battles
- - World War, 1939-1945
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 watercolor; 20.3 x 30.1 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: Brown University Library.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021669872
Online Format
- compressed data
- image