00:00This place, from military position, became a hospital.
00:12Around 600 injured soldiers would be here.
00:17So this is a place where they will basically die, surrounded by the pitch
00:29black.
00:30They were meant to be left here, that was placed to die, not to be treated.
00:40What you're seeing here at the Battle of Okinawa is really the crescendo of the Pacific War
00:46in terms of amphibious assault.
00:48Those island hopping campaigns, what it took to fight an enemy that, my God, they were successful.
00:57Savage and successful.
00:59War is man's common enemy.
01:02For some reason, we just refuse to learn that lesson.
01:06What's going to happen here at Tarwa, as the Marines are coming in, there's a coral reef
01:10there.
01:11They're bumping into that reef.
01:12And so the Marines who are in those landing craft have to jump over the sides while the
01:17Japanese are sending withering fire.
01:19It's a bloodbath.
01:21We have to deal with the coral.
01:22So the UDT, Army units, Marine recon, they really start to see the potential of what they
01:28can do.
01:29Right there is where the gaps were blown so they could bring those supply ships through.
01:35The whole time that we're diving that, that's all I'm going to be able to think about.
01:38We can be a part of healing that pain and that sacrifice.
01:43We need that.
01:44We need each other.
01:4680 years ago, there were guys down there clearing the way for the assault force.
01:51They weren't warriors.
01:52They were thrown into war.
01:54That shows the resolve we had as a country.
01:57As we move forward in time, I think it's on our generation to talk about these guys and
02:02carry that lineage forward.
02:05There were some serious lessons that were paid for in blood.
02:08We have to continue to think about that.
02:12If we can kill as many Americans as possible, this might provide the Japanese nation an honorable
02:18resolution.
02:20The Japanese are not going to give up.
02:22Our enemy knows the score, so do we, and we're going to go head to head.
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