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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...
Wanting, last main link in the new Allied supply chain to China (see above), fell last week after a savage fight for the high ground dominating the town. From that battlefield, TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White cabled...
...Scene Is Set. Now the sun rises from the east behind us in China and throws its glare directly on the Japs on the mountain to the west, blinding them. From our observation post on the hill nearest to Huilungshan, the whole battlefield seems very theatrical, very beautiful...