Marines carrying supplies on Iwo Jima

Two Marines carrying boxes on their shoulders walk through a war damaged landscape strewn with debris. Two Marines carrying boxes on their shoulders walk through a war damaged landscape strewn with debris. Reeks joined the USMC in 1941 and saw action on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Bougainville and Saipan. He was the only official combat artist to land on Iwo Jima with the invasion force and spent thirty days on the island sketching the campaign.