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...last week, a melancholy little note straggled into TIME'S Manhattan offices. It came from the editor of Der Optimist, a small Viennese weekly. Said the note: "We are sorry, that we have to announce you already today, that our paper will stop to appear with the ist of March. The time does not yet seem to be favorable for papers with optimistic titles -at least not in Central Europe...
...Americans to pull out of Germany. Said the worker: "For God's sake, don't leave us. Of course we strike to try to get unity and more food. Who wouldn't? But we don't want the Americans to leave. So dof ist keiner [nobody is that cracked]. Then we would have only the Russians...
...clock the ist Marine Division on Peleliu had made only 200 yards. The Japanese lieutenant had noted in his diary that although the bombardment had altered the island's scenery, only one man in his company was hurt. Snug in their caves, the Japanese waited until the first wave hit the beach, then, "the guns on point and island opened, many of those back in the ridge, and a mortar barrage so heavy that those who lived through it said it was the worst they had ever seen." By nightfall there were 1,298 dead & wounded Marines, the beachhead...
Between wars, Cates served variously as a White House aide to Woodrow Wilson, recruiting officer and China hand. In May 1942, he was appointed commanding officer of the ist Marine Regiment. With the 1st, he helped seize Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal, he moved to Saipan, took over command of the 4th Marine Division. Gates led the 4th in its famed assaults on Tinian and Iwo Jima. Military experts have since described the Tinian assault as "the perfect amphibious operation." To get ready for it, Cates personally did aerial reconnaissance over the island. Once ashore, he visited the front lines almost daily...
...this week 26 more Marines had flown in from Guam, with flame throwers and 60-mm. mortars, to join the hunt. By day they crawled cautiously up Peleliu's tortured Bloody Nose Ridge, where the ist Marine Division had lost over 6,000 casualties just 30 months before. By night they established cossack posts to bushwhack guerrillas who sneaked out in search of food & clothing. There was one change from the first, historic assault landing on Peleliu. This time the Marine reinforcements jumped at the chance to move in "for experience and target practice...