February 19, 1945, the Fifth Marine Division, including 17 year old Jack Lucas, landed on the island of Iwo Jima.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.