U.S. Marines walk amid wreckage of Japanese planes alongside Motoyamo Airstrip No. 1 that were destroyed during aerial bombing and naval shelling prior to American invasion of Iwo Jima,March 1, 1945.(rudeerude)

Iwo Jima

As the invasion of Peleliu gets underway, U.S. Marines unload war supplies and ammunition boxes onto the beach of the island in the Palau group, in September 1944. Note injured Marine on a stretcher at left center.

Marines unload war supplies

Marines hit the beach and charge over a dune on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands Feb. 19, 1945, the start of one of the deadliest battles of the war against Japan.(rudeerude)