World War II Photograph

Along the beaches of Iwo Jima, AMTRACS are bogged down in the sands. Some of them stopeed by the fierce enfilading fire of the Japanese, others half buried by the treacherous volcanic ash spewed out in years gone by from the crater of Mount Suribachi. Marines and Coast Guard beach parties, in background, operate communications and command posts and foxhole “hospitals,” as assault troops shove the enemy away from the embattled beaches.