laststandonzombieisland

80 years ago.

A sobering service following a five-week campaign that had left 6,800 Marines and Sailors dead or missing and another 20,000 wounded. All this with the prospect that the fight was only just getting into the outskirts of the Japanese Home Islands and probably wouldn’t be this “easy” again.

Caption: “U.S. servicemen attended Good Friday services on Iwo Jima, March 1945. Men attended Good Friday services in the only ‘Chapel’ Iwo Jima offers. Their camp is situated at the foot of Mount Suribachi.”