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4th Marine Division Lands on the Beach

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IPTC Object Name 4th Marine Division Lands on the Beach
IPTC Created Date 19450219
IPTC Author Unknown
IPTC City Iwo Jima
IPTC Province State Bonins
IPTC Country Name Japan
IPTC Credit United States Marine Corps
IPTC Caption Marines of the 4th Marine Division pour ashore from their landing craft on Yellow and Blue Beaches on D-day. Note ammunition and supply trailers pulled by the infantry. They would soon sink in the fine-grain black sand. Enemy fire had not hit this assault wave yet as it landed. The infantry, heavily laden, found its own "foot-mobility" severely restricted. In the words of Corporal Edward Hartman, a rifleman with the 4th Division: "the sand was so soft it was like trying to run in loose coffee grounds." From the 28th Marines came this early, laconic report: "Resistance moderate, terrain awful." At 1000 Hours the Japanese began firing along presighted registers all along the landing beach.