From the HBO miniseries, The Pacific, Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone (Jon Seda) leads his Marines against a Japanese bunker and trench complex, during the first day of the battle of Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945.
Lena Basilone was told on her 32nd birthday that her husband had been killed on Iwo Jima.they had only been married for 7 months. She never remarried and died in 1999.