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Photographic group portrait of U.S. Navy servicemen at an air base in Iwo Jima, Japan, circa 1945-1952. A Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft and Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft are parked in the background. The men, including Jerry Michaud, are identified by first or last name in the inscriptions.Inscription: "Graff - Stanley - Swicegood- Conrody- Harder - Dave. Cass - Packo - Schrock - Pignatro -…
Photograph of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, circa 1945.
Typed caption on album page: "Iwo Jima, EE woh JEE muh, is the middle island of the three Volcano Islands, or Kazan Retto, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. More than 5,000 men of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth United States Marine divisions gave their lives to capture its 8 square miles from the Japanese in February and March, 1945. The…