The Snapshots in Time Collection
Entrance Gate to the Fifth Marine Division Cemetery with Mount Suribachi in Background, Iwo Jima, 1945
Viewed through the memorial gate of the Fifth Marine Division Cemetery, rows of white crosses stretch toward Mount Suribachi, the volcanic peak the division helped capture in February-March 1945. This cemetery honored the more than 2,400 Marines of the division who died securing Iwo Jima. Project: 218318