Marines set out to prove that any island can be taken...

Back home, the public is devastated by color newsreel footage of the furious battle and in the Pacific & grows more determined to do what's necessary to hasten the end of the war. Allied forces are stalled in the mountains south of Rome, unable to break through German lines, and the killing goes on all winter and spring as the enemy manages to fight off repeated Allied attacks. "A Deadly Calling" (November 1943 - June 1944) Ken Burns' epic THE WAR continues...8pm