Survivors of A Company after Iwo Jima. Shane's grandfather, Edward DuBeck is standing second from left in the top row, hands in pockets.Others I can identify (I think) are:
Paul Scanlon, Al Perry and Allan Duncan (third row from left; Scanlon and Perry wearing helmets, Duncan with a cap)
Frank Gosiewski (in front of Duncan, face half hidden)
Dominick Piccolomini (lounging at left in the front row, with cigarette)
Tom Hurley (looking absolutely exhausted, second row, fourth from right)
Finally, The Skipper Himself, Buck Schechter (standing, eighth from right, bareheaded)
(The big Marine to Schechter's right looks like Jeff Jowers, who was serving with battalion headquarters during Iwo Jima - though that's where Schechter was posted as well, so he might have joined them for the photo. He'd been Schechter's driver since 1943, and possibly was still serving as such).
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