Word: 27th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Okinawa the future moved in on the Japanese, gun in hand. New York's 27th Division, its regiments adding new laurels to laurels won in the Civil War and World War I, captured the northern half of the Machinate airstrip, reached within two and one half miles of Naha, the capital...
...their foxholes, as a "thunderous preliminary bombardment by warships, planes and artillery died down, came Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Corps. On the right the 27th Division reached for the Machinate air strip. In the center the 96th Division moved into the heart of the ridge defenses toward Shuri and its moated fortifications. On the left the 7th Division drove along the east coast toward the Yonabaru air strip...
...north of the island the ist and 6th Marine Divisions, for once handling the easy end of the job, were clearing out scattered resistance and would soon be able to help in the south. The 27th Division (onetime New York National Guard) had come ashore for another crack at the Japs. The power was being built...
When the first waves of marines went ashore on Iwo Jima, Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was there, commanding an assault team of the 27th Regiment, 5th Division. By noon Medal-of-Honorman Basilone had his outfit on the edge of Motoyama airfield. There he met the shell that had his number on it. By nightfall John Basilone, a good marine, was dead...
...Tarawa the 2nd Division marines paid the highest relative price: 1,000 killed and 2,000 wounded in exchange for one square mile of land. The 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions and the 27th Army Division suffered 16,500 casualties to win Saipan's 75 square miles. Iwo Jima is smaller (eight square miles) than Saipan, and its casualty ratio will hardly equal Tarawa's, but at the end of a fortnight's bloody fighting there is no longer any doubt that Iwo is the most difficult amphibious operation in U.S. history...