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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Really Rolling | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DEAD: Unsung Service | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: The Dean Story | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: TOP MAN OF THE MARINES | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central Pacific Spectacle | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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