First wave of landing crafts with US Marines heading for the assault beaches of Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi is in the view on the left, from which murderous Japanese fire awaits them; February 19, 1945.

Iwo Jima under seaborne assault

A US Marine takes 3 local little girls past an amphibious LVT-4 (Landing Vehicle Tracked) to a safe area; Okinawa, Japan, 1945.

No place for children

Marine of US 1st Marine Division comforting a fellow Marine who had just witnessed the death of a friend, Okinawa, Japan, May 1945taken from fb/Warhistory online