A Marine standing on top of Mt. Suribachi, Feb 1945
May 10, 2013, 12:00pm / 460
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A Marine of the 3rd Marine Division goes after a Japanese sniper who’d hidden in a shelled out building on Guam, August 1944
May 09, 2013, 5:00pm / 51
The body of a Marine of the 5th Marine Division that was shot and killed by a Japanese sniper while advancing on the beach, 19 Feb 1945/Sgt. Bob Cooke
(Source: defenseimagery.mil)
May 09, 2013, 3:00pm / 33
A US Marine packed LCI trailing behind the US Coast Guard envoy en route for the invasion of Cape Sansapor, New Guinea 1944
May 09, 2013, 2:00pm / 46
Seeking to rescue a Marine who was drowning in the surf at Iwo Jima, these six soldiers narrowly missed meeting their own deaths when their amphibian truck was swamped by heavy seas, 11 March 1945.
L-R, back row: T/5 L. C. Carter, Jr., Private John Bonner, Jr., Staff Sergeant Charles R. Johnson.
L-R, front row: T/5 A. B. Randle, T/5 Homer H. Gaines, and Private Willie Tellie
(Source: arcweb.archives.gov)
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