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Description:Out but not down. The 5th Divison Marine was fighting in the front lines of Iwo Jima when a Japanese mortar shell landed beside him. Badly shocked but still on his feet, he was hurried to the rear by two supporting comrades. (National Archives, USMC 110,794).
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