Results of one of the war's fiercest struggles, the fight for Iwo Jima, lie in sorry heaps all over the island. The hand of a Japanese soldier killed by a bomb blast is seen in the rubble which covered the island.

This Marine, member of the "Fighting Fourth Marine Division," threatens the enemy even in death. His bayonet fixed at the Charge, he was killed by intense Japanese sniper fire as he advanced.

Navy photographer pictures suffering and ruins that resulted from atom bomb blast in Hiroshima, Japan. Victim lies in make-shift hospital in bank building.

Dead Japanese in pillbox on Engebi Island

Navy photographer on Iwo Jima, Capt. Ed. J. Steichen, head of the Navy's combat photography and director of the Naval Photographic Institute. Capt. Steichen and Corp. Wm. Damato.

Wounded once, this German would not quit and was grenaded to death. Germany, ca. April 1945.

Ignoring the heavy enemy fire in the area, Marine stretcher bearers carry a wounded Leatherneck to a foxhole aid station on the beach at Iwo Jima.

Marines blast Jap positions near the base of Suribachi on Iwo Jima. 24 February, 1945.

Bodies of U.S. officers and soldiers slain by the Nazis after capture near Malmedy, Belgium.