12-326 Garand Picture of the Day

Hauling Ammunition, Iwo Jima, 1945
Photo caption: Iwo Jima February 19, 1945. With enemy fire screaming overhead, Marines haul an ammunition cart on the beach at Iwo Jima on D-day.







Launching the Assault, Iwo Jima, 1945
Photo caption: Iwo Jima February 19, 1945. A wave of Marines is organized after reaching the Iwo beachhead and preparations are made for the push inland.









Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, 1945
Photo caption: America's Might: Symbolic of American power in the Pacific is this Marine at a battered Japanese antiaircraft gun outlined against Iwo's Motoyama airfield number one, on which rests the first B-29 that landed on the island. Crippled during a raid on Japan, the giant bomber effected an emergency landing on the unfinished strip.

The look on the guys face in that second pic. In the lower right hand corner. I guess it's telling of how crazy it was.