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Sirs: We have just received a copy of TIME [Sept. 18] and after reading your story about our 27th division on Saipan we feel that this article is outrageous and unfair to the men who gave their lives for their country...
Marines v. 27th...
...TIME certainly intended no slur to the 27th Division's brave dead or to its embattled G.I.s. Neither the Army nor the Marine Corps has made an official report on the action. Fact remains that the Army relieved many 27th Division officer during and after the Saipan battle...
...time Detroit had taken two out of three from the Yankees, four straight from the Red Sox, Dizzy Trout had pitched his 26th victory of the year and Lefty Hal Newhouser his 27th. Meanwhile the Tigers' unstoppable young leftfielder Dick Wakefield had taken over the league leadership with a batting average...
...ninth day Ralph Smith was relieved (technically, for disobeying an order to attack), and Major General Sanderford Jarman, who had come along as Saipan's postbattle commander, took over the 27th temporarily, fired several officers, including a regimental colonel. Thereafter, the 27th performed fairly well until its greenest regiment broke and let some 3,000 Japs through in a suicide charge which a Marine artillery battalion finally stopped, at great cost to itself...