Bill Hudson hoped he\'d see some action before World War II ended.
After quickly taking Iwo Jima, the Marines would move on t.
It was fewer than ten square miles and had been bombed for weeks.
The island, they told him, would be easy to take.
Then they gave him a gun, made him an infantryman, and spent months training him to invade an island: Iwo Jima.
He was a good swimmer, could shoot, and enjoyed explosives, so the United States Marine Corps put him through an early version of SEAL training.
Bill Hudson hoped he\'d see some action before World War II ended