Journalist Ernie Pyle (third from left) trudges along with First Division Marines on a patrol in the interior of Okinawa; 8 April 1945. 
   Ten days later, the noted writer was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Ie Shima.

With his Marines

A U.S. Marine sniper with a Springfield 1903A1 and Unertl 8-power scope

Enemy in cross-fire

Sgt. Howard Snyder (left) and Cpl. Harold Keller (right) on Mt Suribachi, February 23, 1945. 
  It would be discovered years later that Keller was in the photo of the second flag raising. Howard Snyder was killed later in the battle for Iwo Jima.