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THE MARINES ON U.S. V ^W' BY FIVE OFFICIAL MARINE COMBAT WRITERS 1 HE iWFlNfRTlOUWNIt ABO^fl ^HE ;>JTHORS THE aiKhoTi! ol this book are __ ., aiinc Corps combat correspondents and two Marine Public Relations Officers who were at Iwo |iina Combat correspondents are trained like other Ma rines. They live and fight with the outfits to which they are attached and write articles for newspa pers and magazines about the men in their units. In battle they can see only what hapj^ens in their own units' limited sectors. In compiling this book, therefore, they drew ujx)n their own experiences on iwo plus stories written by other combat cor respondents and Pid)lic Relations Officers who were there. 1 he photographs are the work of Marine com bat photographers who, like the writers, are trained Marines attached to combat units. Three combat c(jnespondents and three combat photographers were killed on Iwo Jima. In addi tion, two Public Relations Officers, three coml)ai correspondents, and eleven combat photographers were woinided. The authors, whose names lollow, represent all the Marine writers and photogra |)hers who served on Iwo: Captain Raymond Henri, Public Relations Of ficer, ^d Marine Di\ision. First Lieutenant |im Ci. Lucas, Assistant i*id)li( Relations Officer, )th Marine Division. Technical Ser^tjcant \V. Keyes Beech, Combai C^orrespondent, 5ih Marine Division. reihnica^fegeaiu David K. Dempsey, Con, Corresf>oi^^H|^h Marine Division. _WK \ lecho^^^^Kant Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Cflm^ bat Cfl^^^^^^^k .^d Marine i)ivision. >JUU-'^^' nVO jnrA. A rubl)cr model of the island, prepared for the use of the invading troops. luo was five and a half miles long, and two and a half miles wide at its widest point. By D-day, shelling and bombing had eliminated almost all the shrubbery seen on the model. All that was left were sand, sulphur, rocks and Japs. Press Association, Inc. AP photograph by Joe Rosenthal THE FLA(. K VISING THE MARINES ON U.S. IWOJIMA BY FIVE OFFICIAL MARINE COMBAT WRITERS CAPTAIN RAYMOND HENRI FIRST LIEUTENANT JIM G. LUCAS TECHNICAL SERGEANT KEYES BEECH \V. TECHNICAL SERGEANT DAVID DEMPSEY K. TECHNICAL SERGEANT ALVIN M. JOSEPHY, JR Washington THE INFANTRY JOURNAL '945 C>oR.In.-uIaN.uVAiSngIOGeNnerBaRlI.EFFoIuNrGth. MaMraijnoer DiGveinseiroanl, (Csltiafntdonn/3pohCattuesZ at ..ap) shows corresponclcms going to hvo sonie of theV-l''-- his unit will face taking the island. copvri,;ht, 1945. bv infantkv juvksal, inc. Fir.HTIXG FORCES SERIKS First edition July, l'M5 The opinions or assertions contained in this Iin,,U -..^ *u PRINTED IX THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATTACK. The veteran battleship New York (above) pours fire from one of its 14-inch guns at Iwo Jima. The first As'ave, armored amphibians (below), leaves the line of departure on D-day. THIS IS IT, A coiniminications unit (above) scrambles up ili beach from an l.C\'P. Ahead, an armored amptiibian burns. Ja mortar sliells (below) land among reinforcements trying to come ii THE BEACH. In the afternoon on D-day the beach Ijegan to fill with reinforcements. Jap fire was heavy. The living, wounded and dead lay side by side in close companionship. :<^-if^m UP THE TERRACES. In full view of the Japs on Sm il)a(hi. and bundled l)ccause there was no alternative. Marines inch their way up the slope of the sandy terraces leading from the beach to the first airfield.
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