Sandstone Buttes at Iwo - Finding Hidden Defenders

Japanese defenders fought fiercely as they tried to keep Iwo Jima from falling into American hands:

THE LAST POCKET of enemy defenders in the 4th Division zone of action held out in a jungle of small sandstone buttes and withered vegetation.

Credits

U.S. Marine Corps photo, from Iwo Jima:  Amphibious Epic, United States Marine Corps Historical Monograph, by Lt. Col. Whitman S. Bartley, USMC.

Image located in Chapter IX - "The Final Phase," at page 181.