Dense black smoke billows high in the air as Marine flamethrowing tanks flush Japs out of their holes on Iwo Jima.

Original pen and ink and wash sketch, signed by Reeks, of heavy smoke billowing into the air, three Marines manning machine gun in foreground Original pen and ink and wash sketch, signed by Reeks, of heavy smoke billowing into the air, three Marines manning machine gun in foreground Title from typed label affixed to verso. It continues: "This sketch was made from a Leatherneck machine-gun position"; 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.