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- [Narrator] Seashore calling front power
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can we return shell from takeoff,
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return shell from takeoff, over.
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- [Narrator] Tokyo, spring 1945.
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One of the great cities of the world
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becomes one of the great
battlefields of the world.
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Center and soul of the
Japanese war effort,
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Tokyo is objective number one
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for strategic air attacks by the Allies.
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From the faroff Mariana, from Guam,
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from Saipan, from Tinian come the B-29s
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bringing war to the makers of war.
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Strategic attacks.
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Shatter and destroy transport,
industry, communications,
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resources, manpower.
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More critical to a country at war
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than her divisions in the field,
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her ships at sea, her planes in the air,
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the great fire raids consume Japan.
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66 cities are swept by
hurricanes of flame.
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Long range fighters from Iwo Jima,
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rough, tough Mustangs
protect the superports
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on their incessant sweeps over Japan
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and scourge and strafe
as they come and go.
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Fighters and bombers together
destroy 51% of Tokyo,
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44% of Yokohama, 26% of Osaka.
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City after city, raid after raid.
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Back to base, 1,400 miles
from Tokyo for the Marianas.
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A distance that would mean
death for the cripples
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were it not for the emergency
landing strip on Iwo Jima.
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Without a haven midway,
without the protection
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of the fighters to beat off the Japanese,
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the raids would be impossible.
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Iwo Jima is the haven.
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B-29s wounded over Japan come limping in
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to safety, to refuge.
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Before the war is done,
25,000 American airmen
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will owe their lives to Iwo Jima.
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And in the shadow of Mt. Suribachi
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a base for the rough, tough Mustangs
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that guard the bombers
on their way to Tokyo.
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Iwo Jima, the indispensable island.
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But before Iwo Jima, over the
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limitless wastes of the Pacific,
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on 100 islands behind Iwo,
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a different war has been waged
before Iwo could be reached.
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The campaign of staging and supplies
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in a twilight zone which was
neither combat nor peace.
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Only a fraction of the millions in uniform
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ever fired a shot in anger.
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For them, World War II
was routine monotony
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from morning 'til night,
day in and day out,
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week in and week out,
month in and month out,
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year in year out.
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Floating apathetically back and forth
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on routine, unspectacular missions,
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cargo ships called by their
crews buckets or sieves
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kept island tied to island,
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linking rear area bases to
war at hand, to peace at home.
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If the dreary role of
these ships and sailors
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demanded that they do
that and this and that,
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they nevertheless executed
their dull charges.
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The South Sea Islands.
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Exotic, magic, fragrant.
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Land of mystery and romance.
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Unity and platoons.
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Los Negros and Marnok.
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Humaputi and Lumi.
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Tonga, Tuvaluand and Epok.
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But when the GIs arrived, the islands
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became something else again.
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A land of horse shoes and horse play,
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beer and baseball, jive and jazz.
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Task groups gathered as
the waning days of the war
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called for yet more fire, yet more blood,
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on a yet more distant island.
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From rear bases long since forgotten
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by all except those who
were stationed there,
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the convoys continually moved on
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toward the destiny of history.
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Not all the battles in the Pacific
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were fought against the Japanese.
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There were other terrors to face,
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and none was worse than an
angry sea lashed by typhoons.
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Eternal father, strong to save,
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whose arm has bound the restless wave
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who bids the mighty ocean deep
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its own appointed minutes keep.
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Oh hear us when we cry to thee
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for those in peril on the sea.
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According to the Marines,
the South Pacific
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is the only place in the world
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where you can stand up
to your waist in mud
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and have dust blow in your eyes.
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(pleasant music)
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For assault troops, one
thing was always certain.
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However bad any given
island may have been,
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the next was sure to be worse
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but the men who were
ordered to take Iwo Jima
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in February 1945 did not know
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that the worst of all lay ahead.
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(upbeat music)
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From all over the Pacific,
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the ships converged on Iwo Jima.
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The voyage was long, heated, interminable.
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The men relaxed and waited
as best they knew how.
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(pleasant music)
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Iwo Jima, eight square miles
of reeking volcanic ash
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on the doorstep to Tokyo.
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Seven battleships, four heavy cruisers,
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15 destroyers take up position,
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planting a ring of floating artillery
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around the tiny island,
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picking their targets, finding the range.
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February 1945, all the
guns and all the ships
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prepare for 72 hours of furious,
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continuous, unbroken barrage.
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The most concentrated naval
bombardment of World War II.
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(booming)
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Secretary of the Navy,
Forrestal is there to tell
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the sailors and marines
we have little choice
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except to take Iwo Jima by force of arms,
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by character and courage.
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There is no room for surprise maneuvers,
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only headlong assault.
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Ashore, 23,000 Japanese soldiers
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are dug deep in the
most formidable defenses
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the Marines have ever encountered.
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The island is a solid mass of
underground fortifications,
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impregnable against bombardment.
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They can be destroyed
only by force of arms,
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by character and courage.
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(dramatic music)
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From the caves of Mt.
Suribachi which dominate
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the entire island, the Japanese zero in
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their artillery on the landing beaches,
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pinning the Marines to the shore
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in an avalanche of fire and steam,
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paralyzing any advance,
threatening obliteration.
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Desperate calls for help or support
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go out to the carriers offshore.
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In combat information centers,
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all available planes and pilots
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are prepared to answer the pleas
from the beachhead in hell.
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Winged sailors fly to the
aid of earthbound Marines.
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By character and courage, more reserves,
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more supplies, more Americans spill
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into the slaughterhouse that is Iwo Jima
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and claw their way toward
their party, Suribachi.
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While the mountain remains Japanese,
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the island remains invincible.
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5,000 American Marines will
die before Iwo Jima falls,
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but in the bloody bookkeeping of war,
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the price will be in balance
by the 25,000 American airmen
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whose lives the island will save.
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One man will die today to save
five who will live tomorrow.
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556 feet, Suribachi towers
above the island Iwo Jima.
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556 feet the Marines
fight their way upward.
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556 feet from disaster to victory.
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When freedom from her mountain heights
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unfurled the standard to the air,
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she tore the azure robe of night
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and set the stars of glory there.
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(dramatic music)
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