Mopping up the last cave on Hill 382 on Iwo Jima

Original oil painting, unsigned (by Hios); desolate landscape in aftermath of battle, wasteland of shell holes, pits, dead Japanese soldiers; group of American soldiers at upper left firing into caves. Original oil painting, unsigned (by Hios); desolate landscape in aftermath of battle, wasteland of shell holes, pits, dead Japanese soldiers; group of American soldiers at upper left firing into caves. Hios joined the USMC in 1942 and trained as a combat photographer. He saw action on the Marshall Islands, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Promoted to sergeant, he received the Bronze Star for 'heroic and meritorious action in obtaining valuable combat photographs under hazardous conditions'. In wooden frame. Gift of the artist, 1994.