U.S. Marines help a Japanese soldier from a dugout on Tinian after they convinced him that life as a prisoner was more desirable than death for the Emperor
He still holds a cigarette the Leathernecks used to aid in coaxing him out
- Date
- 1944-08-01
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,631 × 4,491 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Army).
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