World War II Photograph from Battle of Iwo Jima

World War II Photograph: Marines and Coast Guard beach parties set up for business on Iwo Jima only a few yards from the water’s edge and under the thickly placed guns of the volcanic fortress, Mount Suribachi. using shell craters for foxholes, they have set up communications and command posts for the landing of reinforcements and the assaults against Iwo’s airfields and the cave-pitted volcano.

Marines and Coast Guard beach parties set up for business on Iwo Jima only a few yards from the water’s edge and under the thickly placed guns of the volcanic fortress, Mount Suribachi. using shell craters for foxholes, they have set up communications and command posts for the landing of reinforcements and the assaults against Iwo’s airfields and the cave-pitted volcano.

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