15-134 Garand Picture of the Day - 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines - February 1945

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Riflemen from 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marines fire on the enemy from a destroyed Japanese pillbox. Iwo Jima - February 1945

Thanks, Bill!!!

Bob

Looks like both 16 inch and 10 inch bayonets and a M8 carbine grenade launcher

I just read somewhere recently that some Marines held onto the sixteen inch bayonets because the Japanese bayonets were so long.