The following images were taken from my window on our transport plane as we approached Iwo Jima. More than a few tears were shed by veterans as they looked for the first time in sixty years upon the island where one out of four of their comrades became casualties.

The sky over Iwo. God gave us a gloriously beautiful day.

My first view of Suribachi.

The mountain of death and glory from the portal window.

One thousand feet over the coast of Iwo during our flyby and circumnavigation of the island.

The coastline and Mt. Suribachi where the American invasion commenced.