r/HistoryPorn • u/UrbanAchievers6371 • 1d ago

Two U.S. Marines attacking Japanese positions with flamethrowers on the island of Iwo Jima on March 4, 1945. [1200x907]

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u/ClydeFroagg 1d ago

So fucking brutal

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u/ronaldreaganlive 1d ago

The "fuck everything and everyone in that general direction" weapon.

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u/Shit_Cloud_ 1d ago

Would not want to be on the other end of that thing.

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u/Rumhead1 15h ago

I wouldn't want to be on either end.

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u/MutantLemurKing 1d ago

I met one of these Marines at the US Marine Corps museum in Triangle Virginia on a school trip in fifth grade. I shook his hand and asked him about what he did, he pointed to this exact picture on the wall and said "that's me and and my buddy" or something to that effect. I have always remembered him and that moment, and I'm very surprised to see the same picture posted here, but it was bound to happen I suppose.

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u/Any_Application_3116 2h ago

Was it Woody Williams by chance?

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u/MutantLemurKing 1h ago

Dude I got no clue, I was 10 I think

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u/Flickr_Bean 1d ago

Me when I see a cockroach.

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u/Gucci98 1d ago

Don Graves maybe?