Greg Wilsbacher is Curator of Newsfilm and Military Collections at the University of South Carolina. When most Americans think of the World War II battle for Iwo Jima — if they think of it at all, 75 ...
COLUMBIA — When tens of thousands of U.S. Marines landed on the 8-square-mile Japanese island of Iwo Jima in 1945, some troops carried and operated cameras. Some 50 Marines, known officially as combat ...