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...marines who took Iwo Jima last March called the eight-square-mile volcanic island a beachhead in hell. Sulfur fumes belched from fissures in the steaming rocks. Rumbling noises echoed from the bowels of the harsh, scarred earth. Ugly Iwo cost 22,000 casualties, including 5,445 killed...
...studied the possibility of an amphibious "end run" around the Japanese lines, to the southern beaches. The idea had been rejected because the reefs and beaches would have made it impossible to supply a large enough force. Such a landing "could have turned into another Anzio beachhead, or worse," declared Buckner. At his advance headquarters on Guam, Fleet Admiral Nimitz endorsed Buckner's decisions without qualification...
...jeep named "Jeanie" he covered the fronts, commuting between Cassino and the Anzio beachhead, making his left-handed sketches with India ink, which he got from the engineers, and three carefully guarded worn-out brushes...
...infantrymen were the men Sergeant Bill Mauldin, himself a 45th Division soldier, drew in his cartoons-unshaven, unkempt, unbeatable. They were pulled out of the line only after they had cleared the approaches to Cassino, given a few days rest. Then they were sent into the smoky, battered beachhead at Anzio. A headquarters commandant grimly noted: "In the last months I have seen six battalion commanders come...
Three months later the 37th went ashore on Bougainville for more of the same, at the beachhead established by the 3rd Marine Division at Empress Augusta Bay. There, with the Americal Division (the only U.S. division without a number), the 37th successfully held an area of dank jungle against a desperate enemy...