U.S. Marines prepare graves in the cemetery of the Third and Fourth Marine Divisions for their buddies who died in taking the island of Iwo Jima,March 1945.

Preparing graves

White markers designate the final resting place for hundreds of Third and Fourth Marine Division fighters, who died during the invasion of Iwo Jima ,this cemetery located near the beach where the U.S. Marines first established a beachhead. In the background, an American flag flies at half staff in tribute to the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died in Warm Springs, Ga., on April 12.

Third and Fourth Marine Division cemetery

The &quot;Fighting Fourth&quot; Marine Division raise the Stars and Stripes over the graves of its slain, buried in the
Division's cemetery,Iwo Jima, March 1945.