. >> this sunday, hershel woody williams reflects on his experiences in world war ii and the sacrificesn soldiers throughout our nation's history. here's a preview. at this moment in time, thousands of marines were lying emen their life on the line to capture a very small piece of ground. . at we now know as iwo jima most of us who were involved wonder why so many marines were there to capture this very small piece of rock. we didn't know its significance at the time. i'm sure that those in charge did because of the future planning that they had for the slands but we in the lower ranks had no concept of what the purpose really was to take that very we had just finished the august, takingnd the island of guam back from the japanese, who had taken it from us in 1942. from oneout 19 miles coastline to another. this one, it was five miles. from one end of the island to the other. knew, we hadg we to win. >> hear more from world war ii 6:00an woody williams at p.m. here on american history tv. >> next on lectures in history. longwood university president w. taylor reverley iv and political s

next hershel woody williams reflects on his experiences in that battle and the sacrifices made by american soldiers in history. he was one of more than two dozen americans to earn the congressional medal of honor for their actions on iwo jima. the national museum of the marine corps hosted the event. >> so all of the men who fought on iwo are heroes, all of the men who fought in world war ii are heroes and paved the way for the rest of us and the way of live we have today. but on iwo, 22 marines received the medal of honor on iwo jima. if there's a historian in the room and i got that wrong, tell me later. we have one of those medal of honor recipients with us. i believe i'm correct in saying that hershel woody williams is the last surviving iwo medal of honor recipient. and he has come here today to talk with us about that battle 75 years ago today. woody is a farm boy from quiet dale, west virginia. kind of a big juks a position of what he went into coming from a place called quiet dale. he was born in 1923 and in 1945 he received the medal of honor. so he was just a young man. so i'm su

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