22.17.65

Print, Photographic

1944 Approximate

Marine Posed Holding a Japanese Senninbari Battle Trophy. Material: paper. Size: 3" x 4". Description: black and white snapshot of a young man wearing battle fatigues and helmet posed in front of a military tank; he is displaying a white cloth with a dark circle in the center; the cloth appears to be a Japanese soldier's talisman called a Senninbari.

Lawrence and Roy Yess served in the U. S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division and fought in the Battle Iwo Jima, February 1945, an island in the Pacific which was the site of one of the bloodiest and most famous battles of World War II against Japan. Found at the Pink Schoolhouse sale. Rural Wilton Township School District #20, school District 20; located in Waseca County, Wilton Township, Section 17, Pink School house.