I need to print the item full size 18" x 9". I also need to have it for a public presentation on 19 Feb. 2011. I would like to have this item scanned without the encapsulation present.

This item is for a public presentation on 19 Feb. of the rubber invasion map of Iwo Jima now under conservation by Suzanne Grieve. The item is currently encapsulated; I would like the item to be scanned without the mylar encapsulation if possible. I would like to print the item 21.75" x 16".

This item is for a public presentation on 19 Feb. of the rubber invasion map of Iwo Jima now under conservation by Suzanne Grieve. The item is currently encapsulated; I would like the item to be scanned without the mylar encapsulation if possible. I would like to print the item 21.75" x 16".

I would like to display this item at the public presentation of the Iwo Jima Rubber Map conserved by Suzanne Grieve, on 19 February 2011. TRANSCRIPT: UNITED STATES NAVY [To Miss Mary Bason, Whitehall, Chapel Hill, NC] [From Lt. Rich S. White, Hq. 28th Marines, FPO, San Francisco, Calif.] Iwo Jima March 7, 1945 Dear Mary, Yours of Feb. 23rd reached me yesterday, so you can see our mail service is, despite the war, very good. You intimated in your letter that you already knew that there were hard days for the 5th Division and that your red head was worried for me. I have waited until I was fairly sure I might come through un-scathed before writing you, and since I shaved today for the first time since D Day, I felt that I was now in clean enough shape to write you. My only other letters have been hurried scribbles to my mother on captured Jap paper (hardly appropriate to write to a winsome Carolina miss on). Although much fighting remains, I feel if I've come this far, the Good Lord has decided to spare me. March 10 I was called away on vital business when I finished the above and this is the first respite since. I am now ensconced in a beautiful foxhole I dug yesterday. [1] I have it lined with warm Japanese Army blankets and it is very snug. The caves on Iwo are something to see. If Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne had gotten their heads together, they never could have thought them up. Some go down into solid sandstone 300 feet and there are whole rooms on 4 or 5 different levels. These catacombs, which are everywhere are, I would say, the feature of the island which stretches the imagination furthest. You almost never see a live target. The terrain is all up and down and everywhere the Japs lurk. I had a front row center seat on the morning of D Day. It was a beautiful day - just a trifle warm. We landed in a Higgins boat 40 minutes after the first armored amphibian hit the beach, but we were cruising around 4000 yards offshore for 1-1/2 hrs. before H hour. The naval bombardment knocked out almost all their beach defenses, which permitted us to gain our foothold. Our regiment's mission was to capture Suribachi, the mountain to the south and we finished the task alone in about 5 days. That all seems years ago now, since we have moved up north. [2] I have had the usual narrow scrapes and they continue in ever lessening quantity. Sorry to hear about you and the Red Cross. Is it all up or are they still considering you or you them? Why not try a different Red Cross office? I was looking forward to a reunion somewhere out here and know anyway, how much you want to help. Our food situation is excellent under the circumstances. We eat better than at our last camp, where the food was impossible. We do it all ourselves, and it takes some time, but it is all very welcome. How about that picture you said you might send? It's long overdue. Don't go to any special trouble but if you have some, put me on the list. After Peter and Harry & Bill & Joe maybe, but, ah well. This was just to let you know I'm healthy, and I'll write soon again when I have decent facilities. Love Richard [3] [POSTCARD #1] This is the famous Meiji Shrine in Tokyo etched by Mitsuki. Just the usual run of penny postcard. I have some beauties around, which are better than Renoir, but they aren’t stamped yet. Hold on. Rich. [STAMPED] Passed by Naval Censor. [4] [POSTCARD #2] Here's your in-up girl competition. A conventional beauty by Nakamura called "The Moon." Get it? She's looking at the moon. Females are the same the world over. [STAMPED] Passed by Naval Censor. [5]

This item is a photocopy of a carbon copy and is a fairly poor image. If you could enhance the image it would be a big help.