Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cover of the pamphlet was the prize-winning photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima along with the words, "Should AMERICA'S College Professors be pro-AMERICAN? A thought-provoking contrast in points of view from Bloomfield College...
TIME'S Robert Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea, Attu, Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, remembers that these stories had as much to do with TIME'S popularity among overseas servicemen as the action reports. Says Sherrod...
...longer made fashionable copy but remained like a departing storm cloud, high above the year's fiction. One of the better pieces of writing about it was Allen R. Matthews' The Assault, a terse account of hitting the beach at Iwo Jima. Worth reading were John Home Burns's The Gallery, a novel of a G.I.'s experiences in Naples, Charles Christian Wertenbaker's story of the French Forces of the Interior (Write Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair...
...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 to study terrain and boost morale, often alarming his staff by the risks...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...