Out of the gaping mouths of Coast Guard and Navy Landing Craft, rose the great flow of invasion supp…

 1st Marine Division Pfc. Douglas Lightheart (right) cradles his 30-cal. machine gun in his lap, wh…

Surrounded by F6F's, ordnancemen work on bombs on hangar deck of USS Yorktown. Officers and men in b…

Through the porthole of a Coast Guard combat transport in the Pacific, landing craft can be seen cir…

Lieutenant Wade discusses overall importance of target at pre-invasion briefing. Invasion of Iwo Jim…

Landing craft brings first wave of U.S. Troops to Iwo Jima. February 1945. (Navy)

Marines of the 5th Division inch their way up a slope on Red Beach No. 1 toward Surbachi Yama as the…

Observer who spotted a machine gun nest finds its location on a map so they can send the information…

From the crest of Mount Suribachi, the Stars and Stripes wave in triumph over Iwo Jima after U.S. Ma…

Corsair fighter looses its load of rocket projectiles on a run against a Japanese stronghold on Okin…

View of #4 90mm AAA gun emplacement with crew in pit. "D" Battery, 98th AAA Gun Bn., 137th AAA Gp. O…

A demolition crew from the 6th Marine Division watch dynamite charges explode and destroy a Japanese…

Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper with his tommy-gun as his compan…

A Marine dashes through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw called "Death Valley" by the…

Marines pass through a small village where Japanese soldiers lay dead. Okinawa, April 1945. Norris G…

On the flank of a battle-wrecked alligator tank the Okinawa sun casts the shadows of 6th Division Ma…

Japanese night raiders are greeted with a lacework of anti-aircraft fire by the Marine defenders of …

Neptune party on USS Enterprise, September 1944.

Neptune party on USS Enterprise. Pollywog V. E. Christensen, S2c., gives his shipmates a song or two…

Personnel of USS Lexington celebrate Christmas with make-shift decorations and a firefighting, helme…

Personnel of OSS camp at Ceylon, 1945.

PT's patrolling off coast of New Guinea. 1943.

 Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, Marines of the 4th Division shell Japanese positions …

Silhouetted against the entrance to one of the caves in the Okinawa hills, a Marine rifleman resorts…