Those were the days, huh?
My dad had Life's Picture History of WWII copyrighted in the 1950's. I have the Time hardback WWII series copyrighted in the 1970's.
It is interesting to compare the captions to the same pictures. The first version, my Dad's, is a "God is on our side" type book while the later version (Time's) is full of either corrections or revisionism depending on your point of view.
Aw crap...major foul...that pic of the marine smoking a cigarette won’t fly...better that he pee on some dead Jap soldiers...
Excellent photos. Very gritty.
They make me very sad, however, because my brother died in that battle. He was 19 years old.
Awesome photos! A few have been seen before, but lots of new ones here!
was there on Carrier - CVL 3o. 6.5/43 Jake
All the vets that fought in WWII are worthy of great respect and appreciation, but the Marines who island hopped all the way to Iwo Jima should be held in our nation’s highest honor for what they went thru.
My ship was at Saipan in 1995 for the 50th anniversary commemoration of the battle. I got to meet a lot of vets and went on a bus tour of the island with some of them where they pointed out various places they remembered. I was in awe of them.
I also took a bottle of sake to the Japanese war dead memorial for a good Japanese friend of mine whose father had been killed there.