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...bitter pills compounded in secret at Yalta was taken from the bottle and chucked publicly into the ash heap. Five days after Franklin Roosevelt had said that the U.S. would demand three votes in the assembly and support Russia's claim to a like number, the President had changed his mind-the U.S. would ask for only one vote after...
...newsreel taken by Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps cameramen of the fiercest fight in Marine Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film, that war in its crucial essence is neither...
...Norman, and Father Lyman Appleby, and Archbishop William F. Tyarks, a bony and ancient cleric. They all belonged to something called the American Catholic Orthodox Church. Everybody knew they Were not Roman Catholics-Mrs. Fitzgerald, who lived in a flat over the Mission, reported that they ate baloney last Ash Wednesday. But nobody minded that...
Three weeks of battle as bitter as any the world has known had raged on Iwo Jima, drenching its black ash beaches, ravines and cliffs in blood. The Japanese garrison was being squeezed into an ever smaller band around the northern shore, but it was fighting with D-day savagery. Its commander, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, was still in radio contact with Tokyo. Most of the defenders had ample food and water (although some isolated positions had been short of water in the first days of the campaign). They had only a few mortars and cannon left, but they used...
Some had light wounds like broken arms or legs, and they would be evacuated soon. Others, despite the best efforts of many skilled men, would die and lie forever in the alien volcanic ash of Iwo. A medical corpsman who had severe multiple abdominal wounds died as we stood beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved...