Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100816:14:25:00
Ii. defeatsing the japanese took three days but the cost was staggering. hundreds of marines were buried in mass graves and never recovered until now. ted rowlands has the exclusive story. >> this where we found it. inside the hole here. >> reporter: about a year ago, peter was digging a were hole with his son right next to his home. >> we dig the hole for making a garden, and while we're digging the hole and we could find the bones. >> reporter: teeter lives in tarawa, the site of one of the bloodiest battles in marine corps history. peter says there was no doubt in his mind he'd found a u.s....