DON MARSHALL: TWO OLD PISTOLS

"Aged 18 and already a vetran of Saipan and Tinian, Don Marshall was a driver with the 5th Amphibious Tractor Battalion, his section due to land on Yellow 2. He drove his Amtrac ahore close to the wrecked Japanese transport whose funnel can be seen lying askew on the left of the picture."
On another shot we can see DON "wearing two Smith & Wessson 44-calibre pistols taken from Japanese on Iwo. Later, Smith & Wesson wrote him a letter of apology for the Japanese having used their products against Americans but stated that the pistols concerned had been sold to Japan in 1903!"