Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiny, hard-won Iwo, for weeks a haven for B-29s in trouble on their way home, was now being used as a filling station on the way north from the Marianas to Japan. Result: B-29s stopping at Iwo to take on fuel stepped up their explosives load to a maximum of ten tons...
...Carter and Harrell were riflemen of Company A of the 5th Division's 28th Marines-the regiment that planted the flags on Mt. Suribachi. It was March 2, long after Suribachi had been secured, and the 28th had moved into the line along the steep ravines of northern Iwo...
This partially solved jigsaw puzzle still left out some stray pieces: the Army's Seventh Fighter Command, a part of the Seventh Air Force, is based mostly on Iwo Jima and under Navy command. It escorts not MacArthur's nor Nimitz' planes over Japan, but Spaatz...
...pilots returning from bombing Japan often call Iwo "the most beautiful place in the world." Reason: by last week 1,400 of the Superforts (carrying 15,400 airmen) had made emergency landings on Iwo's runways. Lieut. Alvin Beck of Fort Wayne had flown eleven missions and landed on Iwo five times. Said Lieut. Don Midlam of Lima, Ohio: "Whenever I land on this island, I thank God, and the men who fought...
...losses between last November and March were higher than could be revealed at the time. Many planes shot up over Japan were being lost on the way home. Dumbo rescue planes could save most of the men who hit the water between Iwo and Saipan, but could recover almost none from the freezing water between Tokyo and Iwo. Morale and combat efficiency among B-29 crews are sky-high nowadays; it was not so in the months before last March...