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Marines in Combat
Examine a volcanic island that had to be taken in 1945 for its airfields; learn how the Marines took it inch by inch, from pill-box to foxhole, with 26,000 American casualties and 21,000 Japanese.
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3 indexedInchon Landing Date unknown
Capture of Wolmi-do Island; attack on Inchon City; Kimpo Airfield captured; house-to-house fighting in Seoul.
Iwo Jima Date unknown
Examine a volcanic island that had to be taken in 1945 for its airfields; learn how the Marines took it inch by inch, from pill-box to foxhole, with 26,000 American casualties and 21,000 Japanese.
Okinawa Date unknown
Examine how the Marines landed in Okinawa, and it took 300,000 troops and 82 days to take the island; witness how 110,000 Japanese and 125,000 U.S. troops died in the battle, along with as many as 150,000 civilians.