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After a hot shower at "Ye Olde Iwo Jima Spa", pilots soak for ten minutes in improvised galvanized tubs filled with natural salt and sulfur water from a well on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.

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Morning sick call in a 7th Fighter Command ambulance an Iwo Jima. The Medic is Cpl. Reaford B Williams, W/O Herman J. Diesel is the man being treated. In left background is Cpl Willard S Bennett, At extreme right (wearing glasses) is Cpl. Nolan Patterson

(Comment worth the read.....Individual comments..."My Uncle was one of the marine paratroopers at Iwo...about 4 hours after he landed he got machine gunned in both his legs, and told a Marine that said they were gonna help him ...that once they get the aid station on suribachi filled, they were gonna morter it, and they did, he layed there for 3 days and when my grandpa asked him, "How'd you go to the bathroom?" and he said, "Jerry, I already shit my pants before I hit the ground"...