Tatum landed with the 1st wave of white faced (anti-flash cream) Marine infantry and their attached Navy medical corpsmen off of LVTs (amtracs; amphibian tractors) from LST #10 that they had boarded February 11 when the USS Hansford stopped at Saipan. Red Beach 2, a 550-yard landing zone, was about 800 yards across from Motoyama Airfield #1, which in turn was 1,500 yards north of Mount Suribachi on the south end of Iwo Jima. Red Beach 2 was one of the seven color named and numbered landing zones that combined were two miles long on the east side of Iwo Jima.