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Iwo Jima: From Combat to Comrades | Hatred to Healing

Season 1 Episode 6 | 2m 04s

Army Air Corps fighter pilot Jerry Yellin, who suffered from PTSD following the war, recounts the story of how a most unlikely family event — the marriage of his son to the daughter of a former kamikaze pilot — helped him recover from the war that haunted him ... finally healing the hatred lingering in his heart.

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