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.
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- 1945-02-19
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- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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- 3,000 × 2,406 pixels
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