(left) Baseball at Camp Tarawa after the 5th MarDiv returned there after Iwo Jima, mid-1945.

Courtesy John Holman

(left) Baseball at Camp Tarawa–mid-1945

From John Holman about his dad,
PhM1c Sam Holman, 5th MarDiv:

Once they got back to Hawaii they let them have a lot of fun. Several guys in dad's company were into baseball, but especially Henry Swift, who was actually a new replacement who was not on Iwo Jima. One day Henry made dad take a bat and try to hit some pitches. Dad, who has always been strong like bull, hit the first pitch out of the park, which was a complete accident. He'd never really played baseball. So he wisely left the field with all of them thinking he was a great baseball player. And they bothered him incessantly after that to join the team.

(above) Combat cameramen in their bivouac area on Roi-Namur–1944. L-R: Sgt Theo Hios, WO Kenneth Traver, and Pfc George Fitzgerald, Jr. All three Marine were from New York City. Sgt Hios was born in 1908 in Greece and came to the United States at age 21. He joined the Marine Corps and served in the campaigns for Roi-Namue, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima, where he was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor. He died in 1998.
Courtesy Mr. Hios' nephew, Theo Servetas