Word: iwo
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Died. General Harry Schmidt, 81, Marine commander, who on Feb. 19, 1945, led two Leatherneck divisions onto the beaches of Iwo Jima, a tiny sliver of land won only after six weeks of violent battle that cost 5,500 U.S. and some 20,000 Japanese lives; of arteriosclerosis; in San Diego...
Savory Settlement. The Bonin Islands, which include the bloody battleground of Iwo Jima where 21,000 Japanese and 4,189 American Marines died in early 1945, is a craggy archipelago of little modern-day strategic value, though it is just 700 miles southeast of Japan. Originally settled by 19th century seamen, including two New Englanders (many islanders still bear such old American names as Savory, Webb and Robinson), the islands are currently used by the U.S. only for a small naval and weather station, whose total complement is no more than...
...Leroy may have looked ludicrous with her size-4 feet swimming around in size-6 combat boots. But the little French girl is a tough freelance photographer; and for Americans looking at their front pages last week, her A.P. pictures of Marines headed up 881 North evoked ghosts of Iwo Jima and Pork Chop Hill...
Texan Sherrill, in fact, had been a tough man to catch ever since the eighth grade, when at 15 he joined the Marine Corps and, before reaching draft age, was fighting on Bougainville. At 17, he landed at Guam and Iwo Jima, where he was winged in the arm. While at a Navy hospital, he took education tests and scored so high that he skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College...
...became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...