Original U.S. 1950 Framed Sands of Iwo Jima Vintage Film Poster 14" x 36" MILITARIA We were there three weeks

We were there three weeks while they gave us shots and loaded our equipment on Victory Ships

The carry straps are solid with some wear and fraying at the ends

Colonial issue helmets are some of the hardest to find on the collector's market as very few returned from the areas they were issued

It was attached to the 2nd Infantry Division and fought in the St-Lo area

and suffered a lot of scratching long ago

Original U.S. 1950 Framed Sands of Iwo Jima Vintage Film Poster 14" x 36" MILITARIA We were there three weeksOriginal Item: Only One Available. Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic, 1950). Insert (14" X 36"). War. John Wayne received his first Oscar nomination for his work in this film, then was honored even further. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, he put his footprints, not in the regular cement as many Hollywood greats had done, but in black sand shipped in from Iwo Jima and mixed with the cement. Wayne's foot and fist prints remain in "the sands of Iwo Jima" on