Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time we hit the beach at Iwo the marines were taking over Mt. Suribachi. When they raised a little flag on top of the mountain, the marines on the beach cheered. A little later a marine came on board asking for a larger, flag, so I gave him our only large flag-which is the one pictured on the first page of TIME magazine last week [March 5 3:= We are-proud that it is our flag flying there...
...Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and now Okinawa. Without this spirit we could never have brought you the true picture of what this cruel war has meant to the boys who are doing the actual fighting...
...being the most costly. At Tarawa, where an estimated 5,000 Japs died or were captured, 1,000 Americans died and 2,000 were wounded-an overall casualty ratio of 5-to-3. On Saipan the ratio was only 7-to-4; Palau, less than 2-to-1; on Iwo...
...more than three years the Navy's biggest,*oldest carrier had fought through the Pacific war, taken two submarine torpedoes but never a hit from an enemy aircraft. On that February afternoon, as she was launching her own planes off Iwo Jima, nine Jap planes closed...
...Iwo, only a few score Japs were captured in three and a half weeks of battle; after it was over, 600 or more surrendered...