| Marines of the Fourth Marine Division pour ashore from their landing craft on Yellow and Blue Beaches on D-day. Note ammunition and supply trailers pulled by the infantry. They would soon sink in the fine-grain black sand. Enemy fire had not hit this assault wave yet as it landed. The infantry, heavily laden, found its own “foot-mobility“ severely restricted. In the words of Corporal Edward Hartman, a rifleman with the Fourth Division: “the sand was so soft it was like trying to run in loose coffee grounds.“ From the 28th Marines came this early, laconic report: “Resistance moderate, terrain awful.“ At 1000 Hours the Japanese began firing along presighted registers all along the landing beach. | |
| Image Filename | wwii1185.jpg |
| Image Size | 139.51 KB |
| Image Dimensions | 600 x 400 |
| Photographer | Unknown |
| Photographer Title | |
| Caption Author | Jason McDonald |
| Date Photographed | February 19, 1945 |
| Location | Yellow or Blue Beach |
| City | Iwo Jima |
| State or Province | Bonins |
| Country | Japan |
| Archive | United States Marine Corps |
| Record Number | |
| Status | Caption ©2007, ©2024 MFA Productions LLC Image in the Public Domain |
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