22.17.74

Print, Photographic

1970 Approximate

Marine Veteran Lawrence Yess Shaking Hands with Veterans Administrator. Material: paper, plastic. Size: 3 1/2" x 4 1/4". Description: colored Polaroid photo showing Marine veteran Lawrence Yess shaking hands with another man, perhaps the Veterans Administrator of Waseca County.

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.