Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Below her high-piled, Gibson-girl hairdo, her smile was beatific as the flashbulbs flared like the big guns off Iwo on D-plus-one. For the moment, only the desperate waitresses in the main cabaret of Las Vegas' Tropicana Hotel seemed to realize that visiting Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor was not the star of the show. "What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum...
Died. Andrew Geer, 52, brawny military novelist and historian (The New Breed), who joined the British army in World War II, served with Montgomery's Desert Rats in North Africa, later, as a U.S. Marine captain, saw action at Saipan and Iwo Jima, as a major commanded a battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Korea, authored the bestselling (2,000,000 copies) war novel The Sea Chase; of cancer; in San Rafael, Calif...
After a stopover on its way from Guam to Japan, an Air Force C-47 lumbered off Iwo Jima's big new landing strip, only seconds after take-off lost one engine and stuttered with its other. No. 13 on the plane's passenger manifest: well-Oriented Author James A. (Tales of the South Pacific) Michener, immersed in some island-hopping research for a book on the Strategic Air Command. Unable to regain the strip, the pilot chose to go by the book, ditched the aircraft and immersed Michener in Michener's favorite ocean. Rescued after...
...there technically only once every six months. With the temperature at a numbing -88° and an 18-knot wind blowing across the polar wastes, the ceremonial hoisting of Old Glory turned out to be about the most frenzied since the famed planting of the flag under fire at Iwo Jima...
...into). The central fact was that without naval air power Yamamoto had lost the battle, and as early as 0255 on June 5 he put out the famous order-"The Midway Operation is canceled"-that reversed a tide of war that would now roll back through Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, Okinawa to Tokyo...