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Men of the 386th Air Service Group go over the side of a transport ship into a landing craft which will take them ashore at Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, 6 March 1945

(A lot of soldiers went went over on these transports and never made it to dry land)

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Taking a moment to honor the black men in that transport clearly visible... who knew what it was to fight for their country and did so. We still have some today who would do so again regardless of what the thug-ishness happening in Ferguson now.