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During the last six months Sherrod has traveled 25,000 miles trying to keep up with the news in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. The Pacific-from Attu to Iwo Jima -was his stamping ground in World War II, and we sent him back there after the war on a roving commission to go anywhere his news judgment dictated. His work to date is fairly typical of the postwar trials, tribulations and rewards of a TIME correspondent...
...rest will be retired from active service. Six will be manned with enough personnel to keep their facilities ready for use as soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...
From Pearl Harbor to the Normandy invasion, Pratt found few secrets that censorship had kept from Germany or Japan, "but [it] succeeded beautifully in concealing the name of the commander who asked for reinforcements to quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod witnessed the faces of men fighting and dying on New Guinea, Attu, Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa. Last week he beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...
...home office are themselves fresh from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...