World War II Photograph

United States World War II photograph

Under the menacing walls of Mount Suribachi, landing craft unload supplies on the beaches of embattled Iwo Jima among the wreckage left by the furious fighting that marked the landings on that tiny fire-spouting island fortress. Marines and Coast Guard beach parties work like Trojans to back up advance fighting units which have driven the Japanese inland. It is D-Day plus 5.

National Archives and Records Administration (26-G-4468)