It tells the story of the brutal 36day battle in which nearly 7000 marines were killed. Contains graphic that may war and death disturb some viewers. [orchestral music] narrator this is the pacific as you know it, wide stretches of water, but this is the pacific as the joint chief of staffs view it, a battlefield, a vast fortressstudded plane on which the japanese defend the heart of the homeland. It is the most heavily fortified island in the world. Buried deep underground, the jap preparations for murder. 20,000 fighting men waited for us to make the first move. And they dont have to wait long. [explosions] the navy begins to soften up the island so we can land. [explosions] planes from our Carrier Force take off to strafe and bomb. [machine gun fire] [explosions] gunboats move in close to work over enemy beach installations. [machine gun fire] enemy fire gets closer. [heavy gunfire] dday, the beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history. We watch the Center Control vess
I think people around here know a lot about ranching history in this area. Texas tends to be very much about itself with its own history and this particular history is more about middle american regional story that has not really been told. So it is almost like the isolation of the ranching history, the texas texas texas, but one of the things we talk about at the show, we pitched it at looking without rather than always looking within. We are in the panhandle Plains Historic museum. The museum is the largest Historic Museum in the state of texas if you cannot buy the number of artifacts. The exhibition title cattle, cowboys and culture, kansas city and merlot, building an urban west. So michael bauer, the fulltime curator when we set up the show, both of us are native to kansas city. Were always interested in why this space felt so familiar to us as having grown up there. And michael started looking at the number of objects in the panhandle plains Permanent Collection that related to