Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back to the Navy, as a commander; 5) to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as a press-relations handyman...
...gather about them in the papers and your magazine, seems to more interested in finding a central recreation spot than in mending the world's problems. . . . Why not set up a Quonset hut for them with hard chairs and with windows overlooking one of the cemeteries of Iwo Jima? Maybe they'd forget their country clubs and get down to business...
...parents of Lieutenant Ben Toland [TIME, Feb. 11], whose death on Iwo Jima seems a heartbreaking waste of fine human material, I would like to say this: their son may have accomplished more for his country, and for the good life, in the simple will which that death has made public, than might have been achieved in a lifetime of service...
...great lagoons of Kwajalein and Eniwetok, the sheltered roadsteads of Palau and Truk, all wrested from Japan, would provide fleet anchorages. Tying the whole lacework together would be air bases on such famous "rocks" as Iwo, Marcus and Wake. (Conceding that the airplane is here to stay, the Navy was careful to emphasize that all bases would have built-in air stations...