Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beyond Iwo, the Japanese cannot hope to outguess the attackers. Chichi Jima might eventually be taken as a platform for launching robot bombs against Tokyo (615 miles away). The only thing the Japs can be sure of is that their home islands, soon to be mapped in detail by U.S. photo-interpreters, are the eventual objective. They cannot be sure whether the assault troops will come direct, or by way of the Kurils, Ryukyus, China or Korea. They cannot be strong at every point of possible attack. They can either spread their forces thin or concentrate them at the likeliest...
...Iwo Jima last week at least 40,000 Marines fought to the death with 20,000 entrenched Japanese in an area so constricted that the troops engaged averaged twelve men to an acre. Ashore with the marines, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod radioed his account of the battle...
...days of bitter fighting, the men of the 3rd Marine Division (Major General Graves B. Erskine), the 4th (Major General Clifton B. Cates) and the 5th (Major General Keller E. Rockey) hold approximately 40% of Iwo Jima, including half of Airfield No. 2, the fighter field. This is almost in the exact geographical center of the island and is perhaps the key to the entire defense. Built on a high plateau, it is defended by hundreds of interlaced pillboxes and concrete casemated caves, apparently connected by labyrinthine tunnels which wind in & out of the cliffsides...
Lives for Yards. The Japs will lose Iwo Jima to the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps, and we will have airfields within 750 miles of Tokyo. One reason for this is sheer power, including naval and air supremacy, but the ultimate factor in the fall of Iwo Jima will be the character and courage of the U.S. Marine Corps. There comes a time when defenses will no longer yield before fire power, however heavy. That is the time when men on foot must pay for yardage with their lives. That is when the marines...
...first night on Iwo Jima can only be described as a nightmare in hell. It was partly the weather-Iwo is as cold as Ohio at this season. The front line now has moved out of the tropics into a region of high winds and long periods without sunshine. Soon, U.S. fighting men will long for the dear old steaming jungles and sun-baked atolls. All through this bitter night the Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets and artillery on the entire area between the beach and the airfield. Twice they hit casualty stations on the beach. Many...