Kinship: Marines on Iwo Jima
Veterans of Carlson's Raiders, Marines Pete Arias and Bill Lansford face the horror of Iwo Jima.
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Kinship: Marines on Iwo Jima
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Veterans of Carlson's Raiders, Marines Pete Arias and Bill Lansford face the horror of Iwo Jima.
Marines Bill Lansford and Pete Arias had fought in the Pacific since 1942 with Carlson's Raiders, but nothing prepared them for Iwo Jima. Lansford feared he would lose his mind under the shelling. Wounded after taking out a pillbox, Arias survived only because a corpsman he never knew threw himself over him and took the full blast.
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Kinship: Marines on Iwo Jima
Clip: Episode 6 | 5m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Marines Bill Lansford and Pete Arias had fought in the Pacific since 1942 with Carlson's Raiders, but nothing prepared them for Iwo Jima. Lansford feared he would lose his mind under the shelling. Wounded after taking out a pillbox, Arias survived only because a corpsman he never knew threw himself over him and took the full blast.
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