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The War
Kinship: Marines on 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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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
