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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:23,870 --> 00:00:26,120 Previously, on World War II in HD. 2 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,560 I try to orient myself, but I'm lost. 3 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:37,850 During his first mission in a combat zone, rookie GI Rockie Blunt loses his way in Nazi territory 4 00:00:38,090 --> 00:00:40,570 and comes face to face with the enemy. 5 00:00:40,830 --> 00:00:42,050 I don't have a choice. 6 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:44,460 I approach him from behind. 7 00:00:45,340 --> 00:00:48,340 And hit him hard over the head with my pistol, 8 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:50,830 and when he fell, I slit his throat. 9 00:00:51,980 --> 00:00:56,140 While in the pacific. I see mortars hitting a few hundred yards away. 10 00:00:58,690 --> 00:01:02,190 Marine Nolen Marbrey is wounded in action on Peleliu. 11 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,420 I'm falling into a daze. 12 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:10,510 And correspondent Robert Sherrod is on Iwo Jima 13 00:01:10,510 --> 00:01:14,740 where he witnesses one of the most iconic moments in the war to date. 14 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,960 If we can capture that vertical monstrosity, we can do anything. 15 00:01:27,750 --> 00:01:34,010 Grant us a common faith that man shall know bread and peace, 16 00:01:36,660 --> 00:01:41,670 that he shall know justice and righteousness, freedom and security, 17 00:01:43,190 --> 00:01:48,210 an equal opportunity and an equal chance to do his best 18 00:01:48,810 --> 00:01:52,210 not only in our own lands but throughout the world. 19 00:02:39,380 --> 00:02:44,170 Mr. Chief Justice, Mr. Vice President, my friends: 20 00:02:46,710 --> 00:02:50,810 as I stand here today, having taken the solemn oath of office, 21 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:58,070 in the presence of my fellow countrymen, in the presence of our God, 22 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:03,560 I know that it is America's purpose that we shall not fail. 23 00:03:07,010 --> 00:03:12,550 As Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath of office on January 20, 1945, 24 00:03:13,330 --> 00:03:17,890 he becomes the only President in American history to be elected to four terms. 25 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:22,330 But despite this unprecedented achievement, 26 00:03:22,330 --> 00:03:26,080 there is relatively little fanfare in the streets of Washington. 27 00:03:26,780 --> 00:03:29,610 With the nation focused on the continuing war effort, 28 00:03:30,170 --> 00:03:35,920 Roosevelt cancels the traditional post inaugural parade and evening celebrations. 29 00:03:38,690 --> 00:03:43,220 For more than three grueling years, FDR has led the nation in war. 30 00:03:44,710 --> 00:03:48,990 Now it seems he is finally on the verge of leading America to victory. 31 00:03:52,150 --> 00:03:56,130 But as the Axis forces ramp up for a final defensive stand, 32 00:03:56,130 --> 00:03:58,750 the road to freedom will be grueling. 33 00:04:01,090 --> 00:04:05,470 We Americans of today, together with our allies, 34 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:09,750 are passing through a period of supreme test. 35 00:04:10,790 --> 00:04:15,650 It is a test of our courage, of our resolve, 36 00:04:15,650 --> 00:04:20,500 of our wisdom, of our essential Democracy. 37 00:04:22,390 --> 00:04:26,320 If we meet that test successfully and honorably, 38 00:04:26,940 --> 00:04:31,400 we shall perform a service of historic importance, 39 00:04:32,780 --> 00:04:38,590 of historic importance which men and women and children will honor throughout all time. 40 00:05:06,020 --> 00:05:10,500 In the Ardennes Forest near the Belgium-German border, 41 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:17,870 almost 1/4 of a million German troops, spearheaded by 600 tanks, launch a surprise attack against the American lines. 42 00:05:19,990 --> 00:05:23,100 It is Hitler's desperate final offensive, 43 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,120 his last chance to change the tide of a losing war. 44 00:05:30,530 --> 00:05:35,520 Thinly spread and undersupplied, the Americans are overwhelmed. 45 00:05:37,510 --> 00:05:41,150 Within days, the Germans push them back almost 40 miles, 46 00:05:41,150 --> 00:05:43,820 creating a bulge in the American lines. 47 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,300 The Americans must hold the Germans until reinforcements arrive. 48 00:05:55,830 --> 00:06:00,820 But with severe winter storms setting in and temperatures dropping to below zero, 49 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:05,480 the situation for the Americans goes from bad to worse. 50 00:06:19,430 --> 00:06:21,910 Our eyes are all focused on the woods, 51 00:06:21,910 --> 00:06:24,850 our ears cocked for any sound of the enemy. 52 00:06:26,980 --> 00:06:31,380 Boston native Rockie Blunt and the army's 84th infantry division 53 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:34,950 are occupying foxholes carved out of ice and snow. 54 00:06:35,630 --> 00:06:39,730 For days, they have succeeded in holding their positions against the Germans. 55 00:06:42,010 --> 00:06:45,440 Our enemy isn't the Germans as much as it is the weather. 56 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,460 It started snowing the day we got here, and it hasn't stopped since. 57 00:06:50,820 --> 00:06:53,800 I'm constantly covered with a blanket of snow and ice. 58 00:06:54,620 --> 00:06:57,740 It's so cold, I can't even breathe. 59 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:05,400 Blunt and many of the 600,000 troops fighting in the Ardennes Forest and the Alsace region 60 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,730 are wearing the same clothes 61 00:07:07,730 --> 00:07:10,870 they were in when they arrived in Europe back in the summer and fall months. 62 00:07:12,060 --> 00:07:15,900 While some Allied units received winter gear, 63 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:20,380 others, like Blunt's, did not due to shortages and miscommunication. 64 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:23,910 We don't have rubber overshoes. 65 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,960 We don't have overcoats. 66 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,330 We don't have gloves or scarves. 67 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:39,750 When one of our men goes down, there's nothing else we can do. 68 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:43,110 We strip our own dead. 69 00:07:44,390 --> 00:07:50,100 It is a very difficult thing to steal from a dead GI, an American. 70 00:07:50,310 --> 00:07:53,310 You never touched his watch. You never touched his wallet. 71 00:07:53,310 --> 00:07:57,800 You never touched anything personal. But anything that had been issued by the army, 72 00:07:58,010 --> 00:08:01,370 you stripped him of it, because you kept saying to yourself: 73 00:08:01,370 --> 00:08:04,110 "The poor bastard, he doesn't need it anymore." 74 00:08:04,310 --> 00:08:07,310 I do, I've got to try and stay alive another couple of days. 75 00:08:07,540 --> 00:08:11,960 I can't help but wonder, when will it be my turn to be picked over? 76 00:08:13,790 --> 00:08:16,400 When will I be the next dead GI? 77 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:37,310 This next operation looks to be the most decisive of them all, 78 00:08:41,110 --> 00:08:44,500 the logical finish to what we started on Tarawa, 79 00:08:46,550 --> 00:08:48,730 the whole damn central pacific campaign. 80 00:08:54,350 --> 00:08:57,460 At least this time, no one's promising a short battle. 81 00:09:01,300 --> 00:09:07,210 Combat correspondent Robert Sherrod is with Admiral Chester Nimitz's massive flotilla 82 00:09:07,390 --> 00:09:11,670 in the anchorage of Ulithi, an atoll in the Caroline Islands. 83 00:09:14,330 --> 00:09:18,200 For the past two years, Sherrod has been 84 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,280 covering the pacific war for the "Time and Life" magazine, 85 00:09:22,010 --> 00:09:26,210 reporting from the front at Tarawa, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. 86 00:09:27,460 --> 00:09:30,970 Now he's preparing for the invasion of Okinawa, 87 00:09:31,750 --> 00:09:34,770 the next campaign in the push toward Japan. 88 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:51,870 Today all us correspondents are on the Admiral's command ship 89 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,650 to learn the details of operation iceberg. 90 00:09:56,430 --> 00:09:59,800 As expected, it's going to be the biggest thing we've attempted in the pacific 91 00:10:01,170 --> 00:10:02,810 and the last stop before Tokyo. 92 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:10,400 Located only 350 miles south of Japan, 93 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:15,880 Okinawa will provide the Americans with a staging area for the men and materials 94 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,750 necessary to launch an invasion of the Japanese mainland. 95 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,520 Defending the island are more than 100,000 Japanese 96 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,010 and conscripted Okinawan soldiers. 97 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,390 If they are to save their homeland from attack, 98 00:10:29,810 --> 00:10:32,790 they must stop the Americans from seizing Okinawa. 99 00:10:39,670 --> 00:10:44,110 Expecting intense resistance, the Americans have amassed a landing force larger 100 00:10:44,110 --> 00:10:47,590 than the one that assaulted Normandy on D-Day. 101 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:56,230 Over 1,500 vessels carrying 183,000 American troops will converge on Okinawa. 102 00:10:59,260 --> 00:11:03,830 I've asked to tag along with the commanders of the 6th marines, 6th division, 103 00:11:05,030 --> 00:11:07,560 the same guys I was with when we invaded Saipan. 104 00:11:10,630 --> 00:11:14,170 No matter how many times you're a part of a landing like this, you're never ready. 105 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,880 This time, the stakes seem bigger, and so does the invasion force. 106 00:11:22,140 --> 00:11:25,580 But yet somehow I still feel uneasy, 107 00:11:26,740 --> 00:11:29,000 as if we're not going in big enough. 108 00:12:37,220 --> 00:12:38,700 Nobody knows what the hell to make of it. 109 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:46,720 The early reports are we've taken minimal casualties from isolated enemy snipers. 110 00:12:47,510 --> 00:12:49,580 Two killed, nine wounded. 111 00:12:51,550 --> 00:12:53,820 This is hard to believe. 112 00:12:57,250 --> 00:13:03,060 Landing with the commanding general of the 6th marine division hours after the first wave of invaders, 113 00:13:03,770 --> 00:13:06,350 Robert Sherrod arrives on Okinawa. 114 00:13:10,770 --> 00:13:13,920 Along the beaches, nobody's digging foxholes. 115 00:13:17,290 --> 00:13:19,720 Everybody's standing, not a care in the world. 116 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,460 Tanks charge up the hills, and bulldozers cut inland to make roads. 117 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,340 It seems impossible that we've surprised them. 118 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,220 But they must be here somewhere. 119 00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:48,020 Almost immediately, two army divisions move inland and overrun Kadena airfield to the south of the Bishi Gawa river. 120 00:13:52,050 --> 00:13:56,570 Meanwhile two Marine divisions take the Yontan airfield to the north. 121 00:13:57,210 --> 00:14:02,300 By noon, Okinawa's two main airstrips are in the hands of the Americans. 122 00:14:06,970 --> 00:14:10,220 Sherrod travels to Yontan to report from 123 00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:13,280 a command post along the newly established front lines. 124 00:14:18,900 --> 00:14:26,450 When he arrives, he sees hundreds of native Okinawans turning themselves over to the Marines. 125 00:14:32,470 --> 00:14:36,340 This is not the fanatical opposition we expected. 126 00:14:45,820 --> 00:14:49,930 These natives seem to be the most miserable people who inhabit the earth. 127 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:56,090 Considered inferior by their Japanese occupiers, 128 00:14:56,740 --> 00:15:00,860 the Okinawan people have been subjected to starvation, torture, 129 00:15:00,870 --> 00:15:05,150 and even murder at the hands of the Japanese. 130 00:15:12,410 --> 00:15:17,220 Those who managed to escape eagerly seek refuge with the Americans. 131 00:15:22,210 --> 00:15:23,930 Many of them have leprosy. 132 00:15:26,510 --> 00:15:28,360 Others suffer from malnutrition. 133 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,160 Even those who believed the Japs when they said the barbarous Americans would murder them 134 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:39,190 are now grateful for the food they receive. 135 00:15:57,070 --> 00:16:00,010 A few miles from Sherrod and the refugees, 136 00:16:00,650 --> 00:16:04,730 newly promoted Corporal Nolen Marbrey and the 1st marine division 137 00:16:04,740 --> 00:16:07,370 are on the outskirts of Yontan airfield. 138 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,560 As the first day of the invasion draws to a close, the men are on edge. 139 00:16:16,710 --> 00:16:20,060 The Japanese are notorious for attacking at night, 140 00:16:20,380 --> 00:16:23,000 and the Americans fear they are easy targets. 141 00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:30,220 I see a glint of light and then another. 142 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:34,040 The Japs are coming. 143 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:58,880 Someone nearby shouts: "Oh, my god. What have we done?" 144 00:17:04,490 --> 00:17:05,710 I can't believe it. 145 00:17:06,390 --> 00:17:12,400 I expected Jap troops. Instead the ground is littered with dead civilians. 146 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:30,370 The corpsmen are out tending to the wounded, those who can be helped, anyway. 147 00:17:35,530 --> 00:17:39,180 Attempting to escape the Japanese under the cover of darkness, 148 00:17:39,890 --> 00:17:44,780 a number of native Okinawans unknowingly wandered in front of the Marine lines. 149 00:17:45,220 --> 00:17:48,340 Believing they were under a banzai attack, 150 00:17:48,340 --> 00:17:51,170 Marbrey and the Marines opened fire. 151 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,190 A corpsman to my left pulls a baby from his dead mother's arms. 152 00:18:00,270 --> 00:18:03,170 Three or four feet away lay an old woman, 153 00:18:03,170 --> 00:18:06,200 her hands clenching a girl of five or so. 154 00:18:09,310 --> 00:18:11,050 It's a horrible sight. 155 00:18:11,430 --> 00:18:13,770 My men are vomiting and convulsing. 156 00:18:15,770 --> 00:18:18,230 I pull myself together for the sake of my men. 157 00:18:19,810 --> 00:18:21,660 "It can't be helped." I tell them. 158 00:18:22,390 --> 00:18:27,010 "We are fighting for our lives in a foreign land. It's kill or be killed. You understand?" 159 00:18:30,220 --> 00:18:32,400 "But I can't help but think to myself: 160 00:18:34,660 --> 00:18:36,500 Oh, my God. 161 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:42,020 What have we done?" 162 00:18:48,780 --> 00:18:50,930 We've been out here for three days and nights. 163 00:18:52,490 --> 00:18:54,040 My face is frozen. 164 00:18:55,210 --> 00:18:56,820 I can't feel my legs. 165 00:18:59,940 --> 00:19:03,120 The longer I remain here, the more I fear I will freeze to death. 166 00:19:11,830 --> 00:19:18,690 Rockie Blunt and the 84th infantry division are enduring the frozen hell of the Ardennes Forest. 167 00:19:20,930 --> 00:19:24,440 They're still awaiting a German counterattack. 168 00:19:29,620 --> 00:19:32,320 Since the battle in the Ardennes began two weeks ago, 169 00:19:33,070 --> 00:19:37,040 the winter weather has incapacitated both combatants, 170 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,440 handicapping American airpower 171 00:19:40,130 --> 00:19:43,130 and constricting the mobility of the German assault force. 172 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,770 Temperatures are well below freezing, 173 00:19:50,770 --> 00:19:54,690 and the cold is claiming lives and limbs. 174 00:20:01,220 --> 00:20:04,530 This is beyond what any man should be forced to endure. 175 00:20:05,870 --> 00:20:08,230 If I wasn't already frozen to death, 176 00:20:08,230 --> 00:20:11,040 I'd let myself wonder when this will end. 177 00:20:13,150 --> 00:20:17,400 I don't want to close my eyes, but I have no choice. 178 00:20:18,830 --> 00:20:20,200 I'm too exhausted. 179 00:20:24,310 --> 00:20:28,680 When I open my eyes, it might be morning. 180 00:20:30,390 --> 00:20:31,850 I'm not sure. 181 00:20:34,530 --> 00:20:39,660 I tried to get out of the hole, and my legs were frozen into a block of ice, 182 00:20:40,050 --> 00:20:42,770 up just almost to the knees. 183 00:20:44,030 --> 00:20:47,770 And when I yelled for help cause I couldn't stand up and that, my, 184 00:20:49,420 --> 00:20:52,250 other soldiers in my unit came by with bayonets and started chopping the ice away from my legs 185 00:20:55,090 --> 00:21:00,580 to try and free me from this solid coating of ice in the bottom of the defile. 186 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,790 And when they finally lifted me bodily out of the hole, 187 00:21:05,790 --> 00:21:08,370 with ice still clinging to my legs, 188 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,410 they were trying to stand me up, and as soon as they did, 189 00:21:11,410 --> 00:21:13,780 I'd collapse and fall down. I could not stand up. 190 00:21:14,220 --> 00:21:17,520 And they put me in an ambulance and took me away. 191 00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:29,500 Rockie Blunt is evacuated to a hospital a mile behind the American lines. 192 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,280 There, doctors diagnose him with a condition known as "trench foot". 193 00:21:37,850 --> 00:21:40,580 Caused by cold, unsanitary conditions, 194 00:21:40,580 --> 00:21:44,530 trench foot can impair the flow of blood to the feet. 195 00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:49,560 If untreated, the condition can lead to frostbite and, 196 00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,720 in a worst-case scenario, amputation. 197 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,320 I heard two doctors talking about amputating my feet. 198 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:02,780 And I started crying like a baby, pleading with them: "Do not take my feet. 199 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:07,320 I'm a musician. I'm a drummer. I need my feet. Please, don't take my feet." 200 00:22:07,940 --> 00:22:12,200 And this impassioned crying, they listened. 201 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:15,950 They said: "We'll give it another day or two and see if there's any improvement." 202 00:22:15,950 --> 00:22:18,520 And there was a little improvement, apparently, 203 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,290 because they did not amputate, but they did keep me in the hospital 204 00:22:22,290 --> 00:22:26,820 until I could stand up, and then I was immediately returned to my unit. 205 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:37,610 To this day, 65 years later, they haven't healed properly yet. 206 00:22:58,950 --> 00:23:02,330 The first five days on Okinawa have been sensational. 207 00:23:03,710 --> 00:23:06,860 We've unloaded twice as many supplies as expected. 208 00:23:08,690 --> 00:23:14,140 Casualties are light too: 175 killed and less than 1,000 wounded. 209 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:21,560 After reporting from the front during the first days of the Okinawa invasion, 210 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:26,140 correspondent Robert Sherrod is on a ship anchored off the island. 211 00:23:29,820 --> 00:23:31,910 He's filing a story for "Time" magazine 212 00:23:32,250 --> 00:23:37,560 when the Japanese, who have been relatively silent, suddenly strike. 213 00:23:53,310 --> 00:23:56,950 In an attempt to strand the 180,000 troops ashore, 214 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,600 the Japanese launch a vicious attack on the US fleet, 215 00:24:01,810 --> 00:24:03,750 raining death from the skies. 216 00:24:06,010 --> 00:24:10,620 Although they had first hurled Kamikazes at American war ships months earlier, 217 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:15,670 this time it's not just a few planes, but hundreds. 218 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:24,230 They blew themselves up on Attu. 219 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,200 They hurled themselves off cliffs on Saipan. 220 00:24:30,290 --> 00:24:34,830 Now the Japs have finally put their mania for suicide to effective use. 221 00:24:39,910 --> 00:24:43,900 Nobody but the Japanese could have combined such medieval religious fervor 222 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,220 with a machine as modern as the airplane. 223 00:25:19,750 --> 00:25:25,090 For the next 48 hours, the Japanese launch nearly 900 aircraft. 224 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:28,850 They sink 11 US ships. 225 00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:31,830 and damage another 22. 226 00:26:02,180 --> 00:26:08,820 Over the next six weeks, more than 2,000 Japanese planes will attack the American fleet. 227 00:26:09,340 --> 00:26:12,730 Nearly 5,000 US sailors will be killed. 228 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:35,990 Burning gasoline is around us. 229 00:26:37,890 --> 00:26:38,780 The war isn't over. 230 00:26:49,070 --> 00:26:53,130 The Kamikaze has become Japan's most lethal weapon against our navy. 231 00:26:54,890 --> 00:26:58,820 For once, I'd feel safer on land. 232 00:27:14,140 --> 00:27:18,200 Three days after barely surviving a Kamikaze raid offshore, Robert Sherrod arrives back on Okinawa. 233 00:27:22,890 --> 00:27:29,380 While he was offshore, army units began to push south toward the capital city of Naha, 234 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:32,970 where they are encountering heavy resistance. 235 00:27:36,630 --> 00:27:38,680 Casualties onshore are rising, 236 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,700 especially among the army divisions on the southern line, 237 00:27:48,300 --> 00:27:50,870 where the intensity of the opposition is increasing. 238 00:28:16,170 --> 00:28:21,450 To help support the battered GIs, Marines from the north are redeployed south. 239 00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:28,440 They are now approaching the main Japanese defensive position, 240 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,550 known as the Shuri Line. 241 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:35,510 Extending across the southern end of the island, 242 00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:39,830 running from Naha on the west coast to Yonabaru on the east coast, 243 00:28:40,070 --> 00:28:44,560 the Shuri Line runs through the rocky ridges and hills below Shuri castle. 244 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:51,120 There, heavily armed enemy defenders wait for the Americans to walk into their fields of fire. 245 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:09,840 I have no desire to see any more shooting or get shot at. 246 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,720 I've been following the central pacific campaign for so long 247 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,490 that it sometimes feels like I've never written about anything except war. 248 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,320 After almost three years of reporting from the front lines, 249 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,560 Robert Sherrod decides his days in the combat zone are over. 250 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,800 All around me is the carnage of smashed and burned tanks. 251 00:30:27,540 --> 00:30:31,640 I can't believe it, but it looks like we're beating the Germans in the Ardennes. 252 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:52,600 Four days after being medically evacuated from the front lines in Belgium's Ardennes forest, 253 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:57,490 Rockie Blunt returns to the army's 84th infantry division. 254 00:31:00,210 --> 00:31:03,460 While Blunt was recovering from a severe case of trench foot, 255 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,050 the Americans launched a large counteroffensive against the Germans. 256 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,440 As Allied air power struck the German supply lines, 257 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:22,760 American units pushed north while British units pushed south. 258 00:31:32,550 --> 00:31:36,610 In early January, Hitler began to withdraw his forces, 259 00:31:37,290 --> 00:31:39,040 and by the end of the month, 260 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,960 the engagement nicknamed: "the battle of the bulge" is declared over. 261 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,760 It is the largest and costliest battle ever fought by the US Army. 262 00:31:49,370 --> 00:31:53,430 with more than 19,000 American soldiers killed 263 00:31:53,430 --> 00:31:56,780 and over 60,000 captured or wounded. 264 00:31:57,470 --> 00:32:02,520 Despite the considerable losses, 265 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,860 the surviving American forces are reinvigorated by the resounding victory. 266 00:32:06,420 --> 00:32:10,860 The Allies are ready for the final push into German territory. 267 00:32:18,890 --> 00:32:21,350 There are no front lines anymore, 268 00:32:21,350 --> 00:32:25,900 no company or battalion boundaries, no safe or unsafe sectors. 269 00:32:27,380 --> 00:32:31,340 The Germans may be everywhere, but so are we. 270 00:32:34,510 --> 00:32:35,710 The tide has turned. 271 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,820 Now we are on the offensive and the Germans are on the run. 272 00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:46,510 It's so close. We can feel it. 273 00:32:49,130 --> 00:32:51,750 We can practically smell the end of the war. 274 00:33:07,060 --> 00:33:11,270 We expect to keep striking to keep the enemy on the move, 275 00:33:12,070 --> 00:33:15,790 to hit him again and again, to give him no rest, 276 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:22,350 and to drive through to that final objective, Berlin. 277 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:32,680 With Hitler's forces retreating, 278 00:33:32,690 --> 00:33:37,490 President Roosevelt travels to a Black Sea resort near Yalta in the Crimea. 279 00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:41,540 He is meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 280 00:33:41,550 --> 00:33:43,480 and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin. 281 00:33:44,150 --> 00:33:49,520 The three Allied leaders are discussing plans for the final offensive against the Nazis. 282 00:33:50,060 --> 00:33:55,390 They release a joint statement reiterating their determination to accept nothing less 283 00:33:55,650 --> 00:33:58,050 than Hitler's unconditional surrender. 284 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:11,930 that we would not agree, that some slight crack might appear in the solid wall of Allied unity, 285 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:20,460 a crack that would give him and his fellow gangsters one last hope of escaping their just doom. 286 00:34:22,570 --> 00:34:24,450 But Hitler has failed. 287 00:34:47,630 --> 00:34:51,790 We're bypassing more villages, roads are less damaged, 288 00:34:51,790 --> 00:34:54,360 signs that the Germans are in full retreat now. 289 00:34:55,030 --> 00:34:58,810 In every town, white flags and bed sheets are draped from the windows. 290 00:34:59,490 --> 00:35:01,340 Civilian resolve is collapsing, 291 00:35:01,340 --> 00:35:04,970 and the mighty German war machine is crumbling in our path. 292 00:35:12,590 --> 00:35:16,980 Rockie Blunt and the 84th infantry division are moving eastward 293 00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:20,950 through German towns destroyed by Allied bombing raids. 294 00:35:24,190 --> 00:35:31,970 Along the way, they accept the surrender of entire battalions of German troops no longer willing or able to fight. 295 00:35:35,140 --> 00:35:39,010 They haven't eaten in two days, and they just want to go home. 296 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,010 I translate for my captain, telling them if they walk to 297 00:35:43,010 --> 00:35:45,790 the rear of our lines and turn in all their weapons and maps, 298 00:35:45,790 --> 00:35:49,980 they'll get hot food. Then they can find their own way home. 299 00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:58,060 An outburst of emotion sweeps through their ranks. 300 00:35:58,340 --> 00:36:03,130 They start swarming over us with pictures of their wives, mothers, children. 301 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:07,340 Some even try to hug us or at least shake our hands. 302 00:36:07,630 --> 00:36:10,720 These men want no part of the war. 303 00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:15,050 They wanted to give up as fast as they could with minimum problem. 304 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,070 They were begging us for food. 305 00:36:19,430 --> 00:36:23,170 Most every one of us gave our food, whatever we had. 306 00:36:25,690 --> 00:36:27,790 They had absolutely nothing. 307 00:36:29,950 --> 00:36:35,400 They're eager to go home, but I know they have no home to go to. 308 00:36:36,250 --> 00:36:38,400 Their towns have been reduced to rubble. 309 00:36:41,410 --> 00:36:45,300 While the Allies crush Hitler's plans for a thousand year Reich, 310 00:36:46,650 --> 00:36:51,450 American forces in the pacific pound Japan's home islands from the air. 311 00:36:54,370 --> 00:36:58,660 Three and a half years earlier, on December 7, 1941, 312 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,540 Japan brought America into the war when it attacked Pearl Harbor. 313 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:13,830 Now the Americans are launching b-29 bombing missions every day, Targeting Japanese cities. 314 00:37:15,370 --> 00:37:18,150 From 10,000 feet, the end appears near. 315 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:27,790 But on the ground, soldiers and Marines are entrenched in a fight that's getting more vicious with each passing day. 316 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,550 The push south is cross-country and over hills. 317 00:37:43,220 --> 00:37:46,630 If it wasn't for the mud, we would have been through days ago. 318 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:58,760 Corporal Nolen Marbrey and the 1st Marine division are slowly battling south toward the Shuri Line. 319 00:37:59,510 --> 00:38:06,430 Thousands of Japanese defenders are hidden in the ridges and dug in to the concealed caves and bunkers. 320 00:38:06,710 --> 00:38:14,420 From there they are able to subject the American forces to intense volumes of artillery and machine gun fire. 321 00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:22,330 Marbrey and the rest of the 1st marine division are ordered to relieve the army's battered 27th infantry division. 322 00:38:40,910 --> 00:38:44,480 The Jap front is close across the shallow valley. 323 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,410 We're fighting ridge to ridge. It isn't easy. 324 00:38:51,130 --> 00:38:53,990 Being stuck in no-man's-land never is. 325 00:38:56,060 --> 00:39:00,410 My foxhole buddy Hill silently taps me on the shoulder twice. 326 00:39:02,570 --> 00:39:03,990 Something's going on. 327 00:39:08,250 --> 00:39:11,350 Our scout spotted a bunch of Japs in a cave. 328 00:39:16,740 --> 00:39:19,580 Sprinting back to our lines, the grenades detonate. 329 00:39:26,500 --> 00:39:28,310 And all hell breaks loose. 330 00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,520 Then from behind me, there's more gunfire, and then yet more gunfire in front of me. 331 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,800 Damn, what have we gotten into? 332 00:40:20,870 --> 00:40:26,640 Marbrey is wounded by artillery fragments during the firefight and evacuated from the front. 333 00:40:28,930 --> 00:40:33,810 Taken to a hospital ship anchored off Okinawa, he is treated for head wounds. 334 00:40:34,450 --> 00:40:39,910 Doctors determine that his injuries are too extensive and that he should be shipped home. 335 00:40:42,980 --> 00:40:46,360 For Nolen Marbrey, the war is finally over. 336 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,880 Over at the White House, the flag is at half-mast. 337 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,730 It was just 10 minutes to 6 tonight, when the news was given to the world 338 00:41:22,130 --> 00:41:24,800 The first reaction among troops was complete deep demure... 339 00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:28,150 Everywhere there was the silent tribute to the passing of a great leader. 340 00:41:28,370 --> 00:41:32,610 A war casualty as certainly as any soldier killed in battle. 341 00:41:37,970 --> 00:41:45,210 On April 12, 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt is at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia, 342 00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,400 recuperating from exhausting travels overseas. 343 00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:55,080 at 1 o clock in the afternoon, FDR collapses in his living room. 344 00:41:55,700 --> 00:42:01,580 By 3:35 pm, America's longest-serving president is dead. 345 00:42:02,810 --> 00:42:07,850 The world paused in uncertainty for a few moments today when the news was given to the world 346 00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:09,940 that President Roosevelt had slept away, 347 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,180 news that stunned and suspended in immobility for minutes the whole country, the whole world. 348 00:42:15,650 --> 00:42:18,790 Millions of men and women stopped stock-still, unbelieving. 349 00:42:27,770 --> 00:42:36,500 Under ordinary conditions, it would be exceedingly difficult to absorb. 350 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:44,610 Although rumors of Roosevelt's deteriorating health had persisted for over a year, 351 00:42:45,030 --> 00:42:51,150 his sudden death stuns the nation and leaves the fate of the war uncertain. 352 00:42:53,780 --> 00:43:00,860 The greatest casualty of the entire world is now suffered 353 00:43:03,820 --> 00:43:07,970 by all the people of the world.33726

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