Photo #: NH 104289
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
Marine throws a grenade at enemy sheltered in a northern Iwo
Jima cave, February-March 1945.
The Marine in the foreground is holding a Browning Automatic
Rifle (BAR), while the man throwing the grenade has an M1 Carbine.
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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