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...course these tributes to the realism of Sherrod's reporting are hardly surprising, for he actually did write large parts of Tarawa while under fire with our Marines on that bloody beachhead-crouching behind the seawall and putting down on paper from minute to minute everything he saw and heard and felt, determined that the least he could do for the men battling around him was to record for all time a true picture of how they dared and died. All through the first day on that "island of 5,000 dead" he expected he too would soon...
...spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading a Chinese beachhead attack against the Japs. At his death he was serving in the Amphibious Training Command...
...with their lenses mapping Italy from the toe up. One of his pilots made six low-level missions through enemy ack-ack around Mt. Cairo, finally got the pictures the Allied commanders needed before they began their attack. Pop himself did much of the photo work on the Anzio beachhead...
Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead...
Between the water and the sea wall on Tarawa atoll, there was 20 feet of sand and brown-green coral; those 20 feet (for a distance of about 100 yards) were the U.S. beachhead. With the 3,000 Marines, dead and alive, on that tiny beachhead was TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who went ashore with the first waves. Notebook in hand, Sherrod crouched behind the sea wall and jotted down notes for a notable close...