US Marines landing on Cape Batangan.
Batangan Peninsula, South Vietnam - 1965.
Photo by Paul Schutzer.
“Marine Sgt. William T. Hathaway of Danville, Virginia, looks over the wreckage of Hanjung, Korea, Dec. 20, 1950, before the withdrawal from that city by U.N. forces now compressed into the Hungnam beachhead in northeast Korea.”
“A marine helps his wounded comrade to cover despite North Vietnamese fire during battle on May 15, 1967 in the western sector of ‘Leatherneck Square’ south of the demilitarized zone in South Vietnam.”
USMC soldier James Blake Miller, dubbed the “Marlboro Marine” by the media, smoking a cigarette while serving in Iraq during the Battle of Fallujah.
Upon returning to the USA from service in 2005 he married his fiancée, but he suffered from PTSD due to his service, which put a strain on their relationship.
A year after getting married they were in the process of a divorce.
Miller now suffers from depression and is involved in a motorcycle gang.
A young American Marine during the early stages of the Vietnam War.
Da Nang, South Vietnam - August 3, 1965.
A US Marine saving a Japanese baby whose parents had committed suicide during the Battle of Saipan.
Originally left for dead, the baby was found among a large pile of people who had killed themselves. At least 20,000 people committed suicide in the last few days of the battle.
June, 1944 - Saipan.
The last Marines to leave Vietnam.
April 30, 1975 - Saigon, Vietnam
U.S. Marines digging out defenses inside their besieged base during the Battle of Khe Sahn.
Vietnam War - 1968
US Marines advancing the front line while under enemy fire.
Battle of Okinawa - 1945.
