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Iwo Jima - Marines with Captured Japanese Flags

On the 26th of March, 1945, exhausted Marines had secured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima:

The fighting hardly over, grizzled, begrimed, and tired Marines solemnly display the spoils of war captured in a very long, difficult, and hard-fought battle.

 

Credits

Photo from U.S. Marine Corps Historical Collection, featured in Closing In:  Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima, by Col. Joseph H. Alexander, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), at page 47.  Part of the Marines in World War II Commemorative Series.