Word: surabachi
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...Corps but feels he must carry on the tradition of his Colonel father, killed on The 'Canal. The young man's lack of adjustment causes all sorts of bad feeling, but is resolved in very moving fashion. Sergeant Wayne gets his just as Old Glory goes up over Mount Surabachi, and his squad takes a breather to read an unfinished letter he has been writing his little boy. The young man is so moved by this epistle that he forgets his neurosis and takes over the remnants of the squad, leading them off into the smoke of battle once more...
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