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History Detectives | Iwo Jima Map | PBS

Duration: 17:24
Program: History Detectives #802
Broadcast Date: Jun. 28, 2010

Our contributor has a map her father brought home from the battle of Iwo Jima.
Her father says he found the map inside the jacket of a dead Japanese soldier.
What is this map? And did it play a role in the battle of Iwo Jima?

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