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...plus-seven, the beachhead was secured and rapidly expanding. The Ike-for-President movement had grown solidly in the week since Dwight Eisenhower announced that he would accept the Republican nomination...
Clues & Proof. Combing old battlefields from the Pusan beachhead to the present battlefront are hundreds of officers, soldiers and civilians with special skills-fingerprint experts from the FBI, men with detective experience, trained undertakers, X-ray technicians, doctors, dentists, chemists, anthropologists, clerks. At Kure, the lab staff looks for clues in laundry and dry-cleaning marks, scars, teeth, old bone fractures, even tattoos...
Soon he ran across another U.S. officer, and they stayed together for a while, trying to get back to U.N. forces, now pulling back into the Pusan beachhead. One night, Dean and the other officer fought their way out of a surrounded house, Dean in the lead with his automatic. The general crawled to safety through fields and paddies. He never saw the other officer after that...
...nickname, "Combat Ready." Every new marine got a talk from the C.O. Subjects: duty, selfdiscipline, religion (he is a devout Episcopalian). Became a brigadier general in 1943, then led the Cape Gloucester operation at New Britain. On Guam, his ist Provisional Marine Brigade led one of the beachhead assaults; on Okinawa, Major General Shepherd led his 6th Marine Division to its objective early, wheeled, and lent a much-needed hand in the bitter street fighting for Naha, the capital city. In World War II he picked up two D.S.M.s, two Legions of Merit and a fourth Purple Heart. Postwar: Spent...
...Tarawa (November 1943), the naval bombardment was not accurate or heavy enough; preliminary air bombing was poorly executed; amphibious tractors were too few, and unarmored. So the 2nd Marine Division had to wade through 500 yards of Japanese machine-gun fire to the bloodiest beachhead in the Corps' 176-year history. This they did. Morison gives the back of his hand to General Holland Smith, who says of his own troops' victory: "Tarawa was a mistake," claiming that the Marshalls should have been invaded first...