The reverse of a wartime photograph from the USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) collection, hand-annotated 'Iwo Jima' and stamped 'JAN 29 1945.' The escort carrier supported the Iwo Jima campaign, which opened on February 19, 1945. Such handwritten and stamped notations on photograph backs provided sailors and official photographers a simple system for recording location and date, and today serve as essential documentation for archivists establishing the context of historic Pacific War imagery. Project: 218449