To: GeronL
Minus 6 minutes til landing"
![](http://www.history.navy.mil/pics/iwo-p59.jpg)
Then the landing under a barrage of fire
![](http://www.history.navy.mil/pics/iwo-p510.jpg)
57 posted on
06/06/2014 9:29:08 PM PDT by
caww
To: caww
Smoke from the rocket barrage obscures the beach as the first wave goes in.... A rocket-firing LCI is visible ahead of the amtracks. I can't imagine facing that as they did
![](http://www.ww2gyrene.org/assets/peleliu_dday_1.jpg)
58 posted on
06/06/2014 9:34:10 PM PDT by
caww
To: caww; Homer_J_Simpson
63 posted on
06/06/2014 9:45:31 PM PDT by
GeronL
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