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Suribachi Good Friday

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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.”

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75 Easters Ago: Mount Suribachi

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Easter morning on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima:

Catalog #: USN 49025

Caption: Their ardor undampened by a drizzling rain, Marines and Navy Seabees attend open-air divine services atop Mount Suribachi on blood-stained Iwo Jima. Covered by a poncho, a small organ provides musical accompaniment while a small choir sings hymns. Even as Chaplain Alvo Martin conducted these Easter services, on 1 April, fellow Marines and Army troops were swarming ashore on Okinawa, hundreds of miles away.