Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Recently I read a description of the battle of Iwo Jima. There still remains that depressing journalistic tradition of comparative analysis: "the bloodiest battle of the war," "toughest fight in Marine history," etc. . . . A battle is each man's personal hell. It is fought personally, felt intimately, and death is the individual's own contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights...
...George! In Washington, Mrs. Martha Johnson, whose husband George is serving in the Navy, named their twin sons Iwo and Jima...
...people had it straight from their top commander in Europe: hundreds of thousands of their soldiers might have to spend the summer and the fall and perhaps longer, rooting the Germans out of military pockets, just as the Japs had to be burned out of their caves on Iwo...
...physical resources to dissipate our patrimony, generation after generation, in this manner." Naval operations in World War II had indicated clearly which were the important bases. Among them: Kwajalein and Eniwetok in the Marshalls; Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas; the Palaus, and perhaps such farflung winnings as Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
...Ekdahl of Providence, R.I.: "I . . . hope to get back to my outfit in the near future. I've got more to fight for now as most of my buddies will be staying on that island forever. People back home will never know what it was like to take Iwo Jima. . . . All the time . . . I never feared for myself be cause I knew the Lord was with...