U.S. Marines in Burma,if you can make it out - the front soldier has "HELL" written on his rifle

Burma 1944

Cpl Eugene B. Sledge of Mobile, Alabama in a fine studio portrait taken upon his return from World War II in 1946.

Cpl Eugene B. Sledge

Howling Mad views the wreckage. Marine Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, Commander of the Expeditionary troops in the Iwo Jima operation, and his chief staff, Colonel Dudley S. Brown, survey the bogged down, surf battered wreckage that marks the landings of the leathernecks on the Japanese bastion. The soft volcanic sands of the beach stalled heavy equipment making the vehicles “sitting ducks” for enemy artillery and mortar fire.
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