"Stay the hell out of my way" -- From Capone to the Corps -- Carpe diem at P.I. -- War on the silver screen -- Shooting down under -- "Look! the sons of bitches can't hit me!" -- Tarawa, D-Day plus one and two : "I think we'd better get the hell out of here" -- "Methinks I have some good pictures" -- "This thing doesn't smell right to me" -- Raising doubts -- The Nagasaki customs house -- Bombs over Tokyo.
Summary:
* Story of how military photographers got their shots while storming beaches and assaulting pillboxes with combat troops * Hatch filmed With the Marines at Tarawa, which won the 1944 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject * New details on the controversy surrounding the famous photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima * For fans of Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, and HBO's The Pacific.
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