Japanese PoWs On Iwo Jima; War Dog Killed

Japanese PoWs On Iwo Jima; War Dog Killed US Marines by rockface, Iwo Jima, Mar45. Digging out Japanese hiding in underground positions. VS Japanese emerge, searched, given food & water. Wounded prisoners treated, carried on stretchers. More Japanese pulled out of ground. Japanese POWs taken away in truck. More Japanese pulled from underground cave, treated by medics. 20:18:00 Marines carry stretcher w/ dead dauberman dog, CU dog covered in blanket. Handwritten card reads: “War dog killed by a grenade. He took the blast of it & saved the trainer’s life, who was wounded”. Animals in Pacific War; WWII; WW2; 1945; Prisoners of War Captured; Surrender;