Iwo Jima - Rare Photos, Map And 21st Marine Regiment Action Report

Marines crowd into landing craft headed for Iwo Jima in February 1945.

Marines in a forward position face Mount Suribachi on 22 Feb. 1945, the day before the patrols gain the top of the mountain and raise flags for all to see.

Marine artillery forward observers man an outpost on Iwo Jima, 22 Feb. 1945.

An infantryman of "George" Company, 3d Battalion, 26th Marines moves quickly past a downed comrade in his advance toward the heights west of Motoyama Airfield No. 2 on 26 Feb. 1945.

Some of the Third Marine Division combat correspondents, photographers and artists, March 1945.

Iwo Jima: Marines push inland at 0900, D+1, 20 Feb. 1945.

A Marine blasts a Japanese position on Iwo Jima with a flamethrower.

An unmanned Marine 75 mm howitzer, "Pack 75," and burning vehicles on the Iwo Jima beach testify to the intensity of the Japanese fire raining down on the Marines.

A firing party renders honors with three rifle volleys at the dedication of the 4thMarDiv cemetery on Iwo Jima in March 1945. Each Marine division had a cemetery. All were closed in 1947 with remains repatriated and buried in a national or private cemetery.