U.S. Marine First Lieutenant Hart H. Spiegel of Topeka, Kansas, tries to communicate with two young Japanese soldiers captured during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945. 

Marine with "Toy" soldiers

US Marines, supported by M4 Sherman tanks, moving forward on the island of Guam, Mariana Islands, central Pacific Ocean; July, 1944.

On the move

U.S. Marines wounded by Japanese fire on the beaches of Iwo Jima are evacuated on pontoon barges by U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsmen, to be taken on Landing Ship, Tank (LST), then transferred to hospital ships, during the first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima (Operation Detachment). The aim of the American invasion was the capture of the entire island including the three Japanese-controlled airfields, to provide a staging area for attacks on the Japanese main islands;  Iwo Jima, 19 February 1945. 