Word: 77th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With words of praise for work well done, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. pulled the battle-weary 27th and 96th Divisions out of the line on Okinawa last week, replaced them with the 1st Marine and 77th Army Divisions. But there was no rest for the weary. In a wild night and morning of tactical razzle-dazzle the Japs struck by land...
Elsewhere things were going well for the Tenth. Marines of the III Amphibious Corps reached the northern end of Okinawa and cleared the last resistance pockets on Motobu peninsula. Units of the 77th Division landed on nearby le (pronounced ee-eh), seized a big airfield and secured the island...
...Jima, Corporal Landon Seidler fashioned a handmade wooden casket for him. Soldiers nailed Pyle's dogtags on the top, and buried him on le beside the G.I. dead. For the spot where he had fallen, Corporal Seidler carved a wooden plaque: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy-Ernie Pyle-18 April...
...first reactions were frightening. In the Keramas, 77th Division patrols heard inhuman wailing and bursting hand grenades all through the first night ashore. In the morning a patrol came upon a scene of horror. More than 150 fear-maddened men, women & children had killed themselves or one another...
...then the 32nd and the dismounted 1st Cavalry Division had driven south in the Ormoc corridor; the Texas cavalrymen had joined with the 7th and 77th Divisions. All the Japs east of the corridor were cut off, and although some would filter back to the northwestern peninsula, they would have little hope of survival or escape. For the 77th turned west and soon brought Palompon, the Japs' last port of exit, under its guns...