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00:00["Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1"]
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00:56And now, Target Suribachi.
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01:04Tokyo, spring 1945.
01:08One of the great cities of the world becomes one of the great battlefields of the world.
01:12Center and soul of the Japanese war effort,
01:14Tokyo is objective number one for strategic air attack by the Allies.
01:18From the far off Marianas, from Guam, from Saipan, from Tinian,
01:23come the B-29s, bringing war to the makers of war.
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02:11Strategic attack.
02:13Shatter and destroy transport, industry, communications, resources, manpower.
02:19More critical to a country at war than her divisions in the field.
02:22Her ships at sea, her planes in the air.
02:25The great fire raids consume Japan.
02:28Sixty-six cities are swept by hurricanes of flame.
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02:46Long-range fighters from Iwo Jima, rough, tough mustangs,
02:50protect the super forts on their incessant sweeps over Japan
02:53and scourge and scrape as they come and go.
02:56Fighters and bombers together destroy 51 percent of Tokyo,
03:0044 percent of Yokohama, 26 percent of Osaka.
03:04City after city, raid after raid.
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03:45Back to base, 1,400 miles from Tokyo to the Marianas.
03:50The distance that would mean death for the cripples
03:52were it not for the emergency landing strip on Iwo Jima.
03:56Without a haven midway, without the protection of the fighters
03:59to beat off the Japanese, the raids would be impossible.
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04:20Iwo Jima is the haven.
04:23B-29s wounded over Japan come limping in to safety, to refuge.
04:28Before the war is done, 25,000 American airmen
04:31will owe their lives to Iwo Jima.
04:34And in the shadow of Mount Suribachi,
04:36abase the rough, tough mustangs that guard the bombers
04:38on their way to Tokyo.
04:40Iwo Jima, the indispensable island.
04:46But before Iwo Jima, over the limitless wastes of the Pacific,
04:51on the hundred islands behind Iwo,
04:53a different war had to be waged before Iwo could be reached.
04:56The campaign of staging and supply in a twilight zone,
05:00which was neither combat nor peace.
05:03Only a fraction of the millions in uniform
05:05ever fired a shot in anger.
05:07For them, World War II was routine monotony
05:10from morning till night, day in and day out,
05:13week in and week out, month in and month out,
05:17year in and year out.
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07:11Plotting apathetically back and forth on routine,
07:14unspectacular missions.
07:16Cargo ships, called by their crews,
07:18buckets or sieves,
07:20kept island tied to island,
07:22linking rear area bases to war at hand,
07:24to peace at home.
07:26If the dreary role of these ships and sailors
07:28demanded that they do that and this and that,
07:31they nevertheless executed their dull jobs.
08:10The South Sea Islands
08:28The South Sea Islands.
08:30Exotic, magic, fragrant.
08:34Land of mystery and romance.
08:38Los Negros and Magma.
08:44But when the G.I.'s arrived,
08:46the islands became something else again.
08:48A land of horseshoes and horseplay.
08:51Beer and baseball.
08:53Jive and jazz.
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10:25Task groups gathered as the waning days of the war
10:27called for yet more fire,
10:29yet more blood on a yet more distant island.
10:32From rear bases long since forgotten
10:34by all except those who were stationed there,
10:36the convoys continually moved off
10:38toward the destiny of history.
11:06The Pacific War
11:25Not all the battles in the Pacific
11:27were fought against the Japanese.
11:29There were other terrors to face
11:31and none was worse than an angry sea
11:33lashed by typhoons.
11:37Eternal Father,
11:39strong to save,
11:41whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
11:43who bids the mighty ocean deep
11:45its own appointed limits keep.
11:47Oh, hear us when we cry to thee
11:49for those in peril on the sea.
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22:09and Marines, we have little choice except to take Iwo Jima by force of arms, by character and courage.
22:15There is no room for surprise and maneuver, only headlong assault.
22:19Ashore, 23,000 Japanese soldiers are dug deep in the most formidable defenses the Marines have
22:25ever encountered. The island is a solid mass of underground fortifications, impregnable
22:30against bombardment. They can be destroyed only by force of arms, by character and courage.
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23:01From the caves of Mount Suribachi, which dominate the entire island,
23:04the Japanese zero in their artillery on the landing beaches, pinning the Marines to the
23:09shore in an avalanche of fire and steam, paralyzing any advance, threatening obliteration.
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23:33Desperate calls for help, for support go out to the carriers offshore.
23:38In combat information centers, all available planes and pilots are prepared to answer the
23:42pleas from the beachhead in hell. Winged sailors fly to the aid of earthbound Marines.
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24:27By character and courage, more reserves, more supplies, more Americans spill into the
24:34slaughterhouse that is Iwo Jima and claw their way toward their target, Suribachi.
24:40While the mountain remains Japanese, the island remains invincible.
24:445,000 American Marines will die before Iwo Jima falls, but in the bloody bookkeeping of war,
24:50the price will be balanced by the 25,000 American airmen whose lives the island will save.
24:55One man will die today to save five who will live tomorrow.
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25:45556 feet, Suribachi towers above the island of Iwo Jima.
25:50556 feet, the Marines fight their way upward. 556 feet from disaster to victory.
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26:01When freedom from her mountain height unfurled her standard to the air,
26:06she tore the azure robe of night and sent the stars of glory there.
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