Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous interdiction attacks, when the Iwo battlefield was being isolated, the main targets were airfields...
Then Captain Anderson took his son's body back to the battlefield, to be buried there in the cemetery of the 4th Division, U.S.M.C...
According to American custom, the battlefield had been isolated. Throughout the bombardment and invasion of Iwo, air strikes from carriers in Admiral Raymond Ames Spruance's Fifth Fleet kept Japanese heads down on Chichi Jima in the Bonins, where a single airstrip had a potential nuisance value. Last week, for the second time, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer...
...their drama, the air strikes on Tokyo were incidental. They were designed to isolate the battlefield, to pin the Japs' home-based aircraft to the ground, while more Navy plans unfolded at Iwo Jima-also known as Sulphur Island...
...headlines last week recorded violent, enormous acts of war in Poland and Germany, in Luzon and China. But U.S. newspapers were filled with smaller headlines, too: news that was local, personal, close to home, of deaths in a peaceful countryside that were sometimes as violent as deaths on a battlefield. Some items from a single column of the Indianapolis News one day last week...