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...amphibious forces entered the last island defense line, Japan-Ryukyus-Formosa-Philip-pines. So for the three top-ranking taisho* there was not a wide choice of time. But the taisho could still pick the specific moment: it would be in the first confused days of the beachhead. They devised an ingenious Japanese plan, last week snapped it into execution, after the Americans' surprise landing on Leyte...
...capital city of Tacloban, where Philippines President Sergio Osmeña promptly set up his provisional capital. Then Sibert's troops fanned out along the north coast, and southward to join Hodge's XXIV Corps, which was moving north from Burauen after driving inland from their beachhead...
...when the General came ashore at Red Beach, TIME'S Bill Chickering, veteran of the Gilberts and the landing on Bougainville, was waiting on that "toughest beachhead" to report MacArthur's arrival with President Osme...
During the 76 hours of violent battle at Tarawa last November the Marines' beachhead commander, 39-year-old Colonel David M. Shoup, of Battle Ground, Indiana, carefully concealed a painful fact: as he waded ashore his leg had been pierced by a shell fragment. For that wound, indestructible, broad-beamed Colonel Shoup received his second Purple Heart (he had been wounded before by a bomb at New Georgia...
...Falseness is a product of any battle. . . . No one ever knows what happened." Before the firing stops, the "lying legend" starts on its way to the public. On the Sicilian beachhead it looked at one time as though the U.S. ist Division might be driven into the sea and the whole invasion fail. When Belden went to G-2 for information, "an exceptionally intelligent lieutenant colonel" simply handed him "the bare telephone conversations and orders of that day." Said he: "This is the only thing that contains any truth. . . . We are making out a report now, but it is already...