A battery of U.S. Marine M7 missile launchers commence fire at the enemy on an Iwo Jima beach. They are mounted on International Harvester M2 trucks; February, 1945.

A salvo of missiles

A US Marine with a severe leg wound is placed on a shelter half by his comrades, to be carried to a field hospital/aid station in the rear, on the rock island of Iwo Jima, approximately 500 miles due south of Tokyo, Japan: February 21, 1945.

Lucky to be alive

US Marines leave Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, Western Pacific Ocean by assault craft for the transport ships waiting offshore; December, 1942. 