Photo #: NH 104293
Iwo Jima Operation, 1945
"Canine Warrior --- Crouching in a foxhole they share on
Iwo Jima are Marine Corporal Virgil W. Burgess and his courier
dog, Prince. Burgess is giving instructions to the dog which
will shortly jump out of the foxhole and carry a message to another
point on the Iwo battlefield. This picture was made during the
week following D-Day on Iwo, February 19th." (quoted from
the original photo caption released on 28 February 1945).
The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's
World War II history project working files. It was provided to
Morison by E.J. Long.
Official U.S. Marine Corps Photograph, from the collections
of the Naval Historical Center.
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