Military Photo of the Day: Card Game

By Shannon Henderson Published on February 10, 2018

“CARD GAME — Men of the Twenty-eighth Marine Regiment, Fifth Marine Division, play cards below the decks of their transport bound for the Volcano Island stronghold, Iwo Jima. Members of this Regiment hoisted the American flag over Mt. Suribachi after a violent fight up the steep sides of the volcano. February 1945”

From the Thayer Soule Collection (COLL/2266) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

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