22.17.69

Print, Photographic

1944 Approximate

U. S. Marine Cemetery on Iwo Jima Island. Material: paper. Size: 3" x 4". Description: black and white snapshot showing the Fifth Marine Division Cemetery of soldier's killed in military battles with the Japanese during World War II; the field of white cross markers inside a long white picket fence has Mt. Suribachi in the far background.

Lawrence and Roy Yess served in the U. S. Marines of the Second Battalion's 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.