they had four men on shore for every three men we had approaching the shore," and yet he said in a characteristic understatement "we got on." the best estimate is the one-day death toll on that beach was 4,414. here now the story of just one of the veterans, jake larson, the last surviving member of his platoon. here's his memory of that day, as told to andrea mitchell. >> when we landed and i finally got out of that water, the water was up to my chin, and i found -- it just seemed like in front of me came this burl, and at that time two machine guns were shooting at me from two different angles, cross-firing right at -- right at my feet. and that little burl kept them from hitting me.
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