an american marine testing a captured type 99 arisaka rifle (guadalcanal, 1943)

captured arisaka rifle

1st Lt. Henry "Hank" Bellmon, Co. C, 4th Tank Bn poses on the back deck of his M4A3 medium tank "Calcutta" during the fighting on Iwo Jima, 1945. Lt. Bellmon survived to eventually become the Governor of the State of Oklahoma.

Iwo Jima Marine Tanker

Soldiers of the "Carlson's" Raiders of the 2nd Marine Raiders Battalion at the submarine USS Nautilus after the Makin Island raid, August 1942.
