From "Hell's Acre" To God's Acre
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From "Hell's Acre" To God's Acre
February 1945
Gelatin silver print
24.1 x 19.4 cm.
Museum accession
Inscriptions verso-(printed) "4136" "From: Public Relations Division U.S. Coast
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"From 'Hell's Acre' to God's Acre" "Sprawled face down in the soft
volcanic dust of an Iwo Jima shell hole dug by the great guns of the
U.S. fleet, a Marine finds his 'journey's end' on the tiny island
which the Japs defended with ferocious tenacity. A Coast Guard Combat
Photographer, going in with the invaders, made this picture, grimly
symbolic of the courage-unto-death with which the Marines fought..."
Guard Washington, D.C." "Official Coast Guard Photo"
"From 'Hell's Acre' to God's Acre" "Sprawled face down in the soft
volcanic dust of an Iwo Jima shell hole dug by the great guns of the
U.S. fleet, a Marine finds his 'journey's end' on the tiny island
which the Japs defended with ferocious tenacity. A Coast Guard Combat
Photographer, going in with the invaders, made this picture, grimly
symbolic of the courage-unto-death with which the Marines fought..."
