and once again, this is the division that ernie pyle has hooked up with. he's following along with them, and we've got another quote that ernie pyle had. his reflection while this fight is going on. >> sometimes i get so mad and despairing i can hardly keep from crying. i worry so much about what might happen to me. i've even gotten to brooding about it and sometimes can't sleep. i become so revolted, so nauseated by the sight of swell kids having their heads blown off. i'd lost track of the whole point of the war. i'd reached a point where i felt that no ideal was worth the death of one more man. >> as many of you know, just a few days later ernie pyle was killed by a japanese sniper. so the buddy of every gi and marine in the american forces dies near the very end of the war. okay. very much a part of the campaign in okinawa, much more so than iwo jima or the philippines were the kamikaze attacks. kamikaze or divine wind. they were first used there in the philippines just a few months before. there's about 3,000 aircraft that the japanese have available

ear ernie pyle, the famed journalist, who wrote about the war from the g.i.'erspective and painted for his readers a word picture of the filth and the degradation and the horrors of war equally well captured the essence and the emotion of a liberated paris. he wrote, it was the loveliest, brightest story of our time. well, who deserves the credit for liberating paris? is it the senior military commanders, eisenhower, bradley, general leclerc, de gaulle who orchestrated the military advance into the city? or is it the french and american soldiers who drove the last vastages of french military power out? how about the resistance who began the insurrection that really set the table for the allied advance into the city, and in fact, accelerated the allied advance into the city. and maybe a dark horse candidate, general von coltis who refused to follow hitler's field of ruins order, whatever his motivations might have been. well, for all of you who have been to paris and experienced paris maybe it doesn't really matter who gets the credit for paris because if you'v

for those whom ever bernie pyle -- ernie pyle, he spent most of the door with the infantry in italy and was beloved by the gis. he ended the war it in okinawa. [video clip] >> i will try to describe what this island looks like. it does not look different from most of america. in fact it looks more like america than anything the marines have seen for the last three years. the climate is temperate, rather than the tropical, so is the vegetation. the country rose gradually from the sea, and was formed in the small fields. it did not look at all unlike indiana in late summer, when things have started to turn dry and brown, except the fields were smaller. as you get inland, the country becomes rougher. in the hills there is less cultivation and more trees. it is really a pretty country. ernie p you go, that is again, acription, description that it feels more temperate and like home. a little bit about the japanese command. the 32nd army is stationed in okinawa. it had been there quite a while, upwards of nine months, when the commander showed up and took control of the islands'forces, approx