You know, eight hours later i m putting my entire team in a body bag and sending them home and i lost everything. that s how fast it goes. sometimes you are curing the initiative. mountain fighting is different then jungle fighting. we all know that. my job is special reconnaissance on that was to get into a firefight. for muscles around more we have wes on the target after we gather our intelligence, we send it back. before they come in we have to out the on and then i remember how beautiful it was kll there. eight and a half hours to go for miles and once we set up shop on the side of the mountain we were always going down in there. best way i describe the gunfight in my words first of all, seals love our gear.
It. it is all jungle fighting. the pile of rubble. we were met by 18 come and make team, 20 wrote marines. i was 50 years ago to today s work is featured in the new exhibit to find the voices behind those he immortalized in film. this hour for photo central figure of a handsome young marine is alan grantham of mobile, alabama. at the time he was just 18 years old and he was nearly left for dead. i hope it tells the story at a moment in time of what happened on that day, and knot tying. and you see the carnage of the battle. it is kind of an eerie picture, but i m kind of proud of it, too. he continues to look for the men in the photos. 1968.com where they can aid in the search. the exhibit will remain on display through early july.
Bloodiest fight. behind the lens. i was a 20-year-old u.s. army draftee aside to stars & stripes newspaper. john remembers arriving there. i d never seen anything like it. the friday night scene was all jungle fighting. this was a pile of rubble, we are met by 18 and 19, 20-year-old marines. that was 50 years ago. today, his work is featured in a new exhibit at the museum in washington, d.c. uniquely some versions were created for the blind. he sought to find the voices behind those he immortalized in film but not all survive. others remain nameless. this photo central figure is a handsome young marine line close to death shot through the chest. i knew i was hit bad. i thought it was my last.
Bloodiest fight. behind the lens. i was a 20-year-old u.s. army draftee aside to stars & stripes newspaper. john remembers arriving there. i d never seen anything like it. the friday night scene was all jungle fighting. this was a pile of rubble, we are met by 18 and 19, 20-year-old marines. that was 50 years ago. today, his work is featured in a new exhibit at the museum in washington, d.c. uniquely some versions were created for the blind. he sought to find the voices behind those he immortalized in film but not all survive. others remain nameless. this photo central figure is a handsome young marine line close to death shot through the chest. i knew i was hit bad. i thought it was my last.
Tell me about him, what kind of a man is hapilan. a very bold fighter. reporter: this man is a former islamist militant before renouncing violence and joining witness protection, he spent years in the jungle fighting alongside the man who now leads isis in the philippines. do you think he enjoying killing people? yes. when i spoke to him many years ago. he always think that killing non-muslims satisfy allah, makes allah happy. i was shocked. reporter: in the month-long battle isis has killed scores of for soldiers and wounded more. the fighting has also triggered a humanitarian crisis. more than 330,000 people have fled their homes, and hundreds of civilians are still believe