In Photos U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division planted an American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23 ... machine-gun nest on a map so as to forward the information ...

From Roi-Namur, Harris became a radio operator with Recon Company, landing at Eniwetok, Saipan and Tinian before his final operation: Iwo Jima ... the usage of maps and compasses and how to ...

They were designed to isolate the battlefield, to pin the Japs’ home-based aircraft to the ground, while more Navy plans unfolded at Iwo Jima—also ... When the first landing craft nosed ...