Mutilated bodies everywhere lay in grotesque pose - bodies cooked and roasted until they looked like charred wood.

In the foreground, a bunker with mutilated body parts including a disembodied foot and a burned head. In the background a Marine on guard with rifle is seen from behind. (Brown) In the foreground, a bunker with mutilated body parts including a disembodied foot and a burned head. In the background a Marine on guard with rifle is seen from behind. (Brown) Title from typed label affixed to verso. Continues: 'Troops had to fight and sleep beside these horrors'. Also censor's stamp. 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.