Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like her sister cans, she seldom figured in communiques, but she was beloved by the big ships whenever there was trouble. ("Screen us, Pat!") She rescued 124 men from the blazing Ommaney Bay. She rescued 106 survivors of the Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jima. She fought off Okinawa. When there was nothing else to do she carried the mail...
...Honor to eleven marines and three Navy men. He said to them what he always says on such an occasion: "I would rather have this medal than be President." He shook hands with all but one-Marine Sergeant William George Harrell, hero of a Marines-legendary fight on Iwo Jima (TIME, July 30). The sergeant has no hands...
There are many hundreds of thousands of us who have been here for anywhere from twelve to 30 months. Here in the Pacific are the men who fought back in the Philippines, myself and my own buddies who lived the nightmare of Iwo Jima, the survivors of Okinawa and Tarawa, and Saipan. What about...
...request to continue the draft of younger men in order that we may get the same consideration that our Congress is so willing to give to those who have not yet seen service, or have not yet seen action. Policing is a nasty job, but so was Iwo Jima. Don't make us do both...
...freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...