Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home islands by tactics similar to those used at Okinawa: no defense on the beach, retreat to strong positions, last-ditch defenses. The Japanese, however, still tried desperately to find a means to stop massed amphibious assaults at the water's edge. When the Marines were fighting on Iwo Jima, the high command pressed for development of an anti-landing craft weapon suitable for cheap, quick mass production. The fukuryus were the result...
...will reply, "Please bring him back." The War Department is studying a plan whereby, after an overseas cemetery has been 60% evacuated by request, the other 40% will be evacuated without request. This would almost certainly mean the abandonment of all far-flung World War II cemeteries-from Iwo Jima to Salerno-where U.S. dead have been laid to rest. Incomplete records listed 122,000 buried in the European Theater, 41,000 in the Mediterranean, 29,000 in the Southwest Pacific, 11,000 in Pacific Ocean areas. The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might...
...Okinawa. The tragic Tarawa victory he described in a superb piece of war reporting, Tarawa (TIME, March 13, 1944). In On to Westward he reports the road to victory from Saipan to Okinawa. This book is a memorable day-to-day account of the high points-Saipan, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Ryukyus-in the bitter 3,500-mile battle that led from Tarawa to Tokyo. It is reported with a tacit grasp of the overall strategy, an identification, remarkable in a correspondent, between Sherrod and the officers and men (chiefly of the U.S. Marine Corps) with whom he shared many...
...qualities that makes Sherrod a great war reporter was revealed when he had a chance to go ashore on the lethal beach at Iwo Jima. The first night of the invasion a colleague urged him: "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay...
...Corps' commander, rugged sy-year-old Major General Keller Emrick Rockey. veteran of World War I, Haiti, and Nicaragua, had bossed the 5th Division at Iwo Jima. His China mission, as he saw it: clean out the Japs, secure the ports for the arrival of U.S. ships with Chinese...