[2banana]

Not enough women and minorities in those pics...

[blam]

Thanks.

[exnavy]

AWESOME. Outstanding job to the “greatest generation”. Those American patriots saved the world. Thank you to all vets.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks...Takes your breath away!!

[McGruff]

I was looking for my father. But he was a grunt not a fly boy.

[CyberAnt]

My dad moved us to Southern California so he could help build the P-38. My uncle made the trip too.

They were too old to sign up for the war, so they did the next best thing.

[Pajamajan]

Those are incredible pictures! Thanks for posting them.

[trebb]

I had an old friend who fought on Iwo Jima - one hell of a gentleman with a lot of stories (very few about being in the war though). Old age took him from us a few years ago.

[left that other site]

My Dad was a pilot of a landing craft at Iwo...He was also the ship's photographer. I grew up with pictures like these that dad kept in a shoebox. Here's one...Dad is on the far right.

[equaviator]

Remarkable...Thumbs-up!

[dragnet2]

Great images.

When America was once united, honorable and respected.

[semaj]

Thanks for posting.

[PROCON]

GREAT pics, thank you!

[caww]

Out of the gaping mouths of Coast Guard and Navy Landing Craft, rose the great flow of invasion supplies to the blackened sands of Iwo Jima, a few hours after the Marines had wrested their foothold on the vital island. 1945.

45th FS - Lt. Ceil Dennis, atop Mount Suribachi on a July evening in 1945, looks out over the 21st Bomber Command installations and the ships anchored near the shore of Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.

Same scene almost 65 years later

[caww]

Do you want me to post most of those photos so all can see and we have them for reference on FR?
CW

[potlatch]

[exit82]

Thanks for posting this thread.

We know the history, but to these guys, they were living it one day at a time. And every day was full of danger. The crashed planes are testament to that.

The Banzai charge by the Japs on 3/21/45 on the pilot and crew tents is heartbreaking. Never heard of that before seeing these pictures. Just when you think the island is secure.

That’s why we took very few Jap prisoners in the Pacific. They wanted to die, and we wanted to accommodate them.

By contrast, in the European theater, we took hundreds of thousands of German POW by the end of WW2.

The bulk of our 400,000 KIA in WW2 were killed between D-Day in June, 1944 and V-J day in August, 1945—14 months.

Found a paper in my parents attic from Feb. 1945.

The KIA, WIA, and MIA lists from one county in northern NJ was more than one page long with tiny print in vertical columns.

[Altura Ct.]

Man - check out all those evil white guys. How’s they ever manage without the strength of diversity?

[wardaddy]

Did you take these?

...couldn’t resist.