Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:“Bloody, Inch By Inch” Fifth Division Marines crawling under heavy fire on Red Beach #1 toward Suribachi, Iwo Jima photo by Dreyfuss, 19 Feb 45. Watermarks do not appear on the actual photograph.
“Bloody, Inch By Inch” Original Photo by Dreyfuss (Marine Corps) dated 19 Feb 45 In the face of withering enemy fire the Fifth Division Marine Invaders of Iwo Jima work...
“Bloody, Inch By Inch” Original Photo by Dreyfuss (Marine Corps) dated 19 Feb 45
In the face of withering enemy fire the Fifth Division Marine Invaders of Iwo Jima work their way up the slope from Red Beach #1 toward Suribachi. Yanks, completely hidden in the left background by the smoke of the battle.
One of the decisive battles of World War II (1939-1945) in the Pacific, Iwo Jima was the most savage and most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps. A titanic struggle that eclipsed all that had gone before. Situated halfway along the B-29 Superfortress route to the Japanese mainland, the island was of major strategic importance to the US Air Force, but also to the Japanese, 20,000 of whom were deeply entrenched in the island