US marines provide first aid to wounded comrades near a destroyed Japanese pillbox on the island of Iwo Jima. From the bunker, the barrel of a Japanese Type 3 12 cm anti-aircraft gun is visible. 


Caring for wounded comrades

Three US marines pose in their sandbagged position with a 37 mm anti-tank gun during the battle for Saipan, the largest island of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the western Pacific Ocean. The gun-shield is pockmarked from impacts of enemy bullets and shrapnel.
 


Waiting for Japanese tanks

Capt. Julius Dusenberg raises the Confederate Navy Jack over Shuri Castle on Okinawa after its capture by A Company, Red Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment on May 29, 1945