| W. Eugene Smith Marines Blow Up a Blockhouse on Iwo Jima [Saipan] 1945, 9 April (publication) Gelatin silver print LIFE W. Eugene Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 50625423 LL/32134 In one of the most starkly violent cover photos in LIFE's long history, Marines take cover on a hillside as a Japanese blockhouse, or above-ground bunker, explodes during fighting on Iwo Jima.
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