CSPAN3 American History TV November 16, 2013
One of the reasons they took iro jima is they would come and fly 1,000 miles but they had to go over iwo jima to get to tokyo. Iwo jima would forewarn them by radar. They also had shoot planes there that could shoot down the injured b29s when they were returning. In fact, it got so bad that a friend of mine by the name of general randal, who was there, he told me that they had submarines almost every 50 miles between tokyo and saipan to pick up the flyers. Today at 5 00 eastern. Part of American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. All weekend, American History tv is featuring ann arbor michiga...
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