Wounded in Battle: Marine Thomas Bing Recalls Saipan and Iwo Jima | Georgia in WWII
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Thomas B. Bing was born in March of 1922. He served with the Marine Corps in Saipan and Iwo Jima. Mr. Bing recalls how one gets from a boat to an on-shore battle, how difficult it is to win territory from the enemy forces, and what happens to you after you're wounded in battle.
Original Air Date: 2007
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Machine gun crews have a short combat lifespan because they are an important offensive/defensive weapon. They are an important target for the enemy to destroy.
It wasn't Roosevelt who said "War is Hell. You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.” -General William Tecumseh Sherman
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Wonder if hes still as healthy as when this video was made?
Wounded in Battle: Marine Thomas Bing Recalls Saipan and Iwo Jima | Georgia in WWII
GPB
56,825 views
Thomas B. Bing was born in March of 1922. He served with the Marine Corps in Saipan and Iwo Jima. Mr. Bing recalls how one gets from a boat to an on-shore battle, how difficult it is to win territory from the enemy forces, and what happens to you after you're wounded in battle.
Original Air Date: 2007
For more information, photos, and interviews, check out our website at http://www.gpb.org/wwii