WWII: Frontlines — S1E7 — Iwo Jima
Synopsis
Feb 1945: A quarter of all the US Marines who died in WWII were killed in Iwo Jima. The Leathernecks were forced to re-think their tactics, as one in three of them became a casualty.
About the series
From North Africa to Northern Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific, we reflect on the enormous diversity of conditions which frontline soldiers had to come to grips with during WWII.