Click to Enlarge: D-Day 19 February 1945, Assault on the volcanic shores
of Iwo Jima Mt Suribachi can be seen in the background as waves of
Marines hit the beach delivered by the U.S. Navy in landing craft
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Two Flags on Mt. Suribachi
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Click to Enlarge: This rare photograph shows the
flags being changed before Joe Rosenthal gets
the real picture that won him a Pulitzer Prize and
became one of the most recognizable pictures of
all time. Rosenthal passed away at age 94 in 2006.
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Click to Enlarge: A burial at sea off the U.S.S.
Napa, APA 157 as Fireman First Class Anthony
Morrone. He died of machine gun wounds
received during the landings on Iwo Jima.
The sight of battle-scarred Manila was testimony to the reduced
to rubble. Nothing was spared, from grass huts to marble and
brick churches – all was destroyed, tumbled masonry and
shattered glass. This was the price of war.
Looking at the fallen buildings I could only imagine the high cost
in lives that went along with the horrendous collateral damage.
Columns of once magnificent churches lay in crumbled ruin; walls
of villas were riddled with shrapnel; once elegant balconies hung
precariously over archways that were bent into unfathomable
shapes by the fierce attacks on them.
As I walked around the destroyed city, a barefoot little boy, whose
pants had holes in the knees, and whose dirty white teeshirt was
sizes too big, put a grubby hand on my sleeve. “Sailor, pom-pom
my sister? One dollar! You do, Sailor?”
I cringed in horror at this little boy who was trying to sell his sister
for one dollar. Yet, who could blame him? Their whole livelihoods
were destroyed. There was no running water, no industry, no
hotels, and no restaurants. All of that had been taken by the
bombs, mortars, the fighting of war.
The little boy touched my sleeve again, “Pom-pom my sister,
Sailor?” He looked so innocent that I wondered if he knew what
he was saying.
Manila is Liberated and Destroyed in the Process
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