Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves fresh from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
...Imperial Army. The tough brown soldiers, ragged, weary, grim, clung to packed trains and swarmed the roads, following the long way home from war. City dwellers cheered them, but unbombed rustics, who could not understand the surrender, jeered. The main Jap army was unbeaten in the field, but Leyte, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa had convinced Japan's rulers that their army could not win a battle...
...Navy was first to hack away. Before the Jap surrender offer had become poop-deck patter, it stopped construction of 95 ships, canceling contracts totaling $1.200,000,000. Halted in various stages of construction were the 45,000-ton battleship Illinois, the 27,100-ton carriers Iwo Jima and Reprisal, 20 heavy and light cruisers. (Still abuilding were 167 Navy ships, including one battleship, eleven aircraft carriers; still unanswered: what to do with the partly built battle hulls...
Besides these mainstays, the blueprint calls for a network of secondary bases crisscrossing the Pacific: Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Eniwetok, Kwajalein, the Palaus (all paid for in U.S. blood); eastern Samoa, Wake, Midway (already U.S. possessions) ; Truk and Manus...
Tokyo was timed with invasion of Iwo...