Iwo Jima
Clip: Season 1 | 11m 23s
America needed to take Iwo Jima to secure a base for US Bombers. The Marines landed on Feb 15, 1945 and the fighting would last for nearly a month and cost the United States 6,821 lives.
Aired: 09/22/07
Video has closed captioning.
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