Word: iwo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McCall Pate, 63, softspoken, hard-driving logistics expert who commanded the Marine Corps from 1956 to 1960; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. A World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command-the 1st Marine Division-in the last months of the Korean...
VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC, by Samuel Eliot Morison. This 14th volume of Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in World War II includes exciting accounts of the battles of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, brings to a close the best of all U.S. service histories...
...conflicts have made allies of the enemies of '45, and names like Okinawa and Iwo Jima already begin to seem almost as far away and long ago as Chickamauga and Antietam. It takes the death of the world's most powerful warship to bring out Samuel Eliot Morison's unrivaled gifts as a chronicler of the sea and thereby to sustain a grand narrative sweep through this 14th and final volume of his History of United States Naval Operations in World...
...argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered tin cans on Okinawa radar picket duty fought "to survive against the flaming terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks on Honshu, the Navy's land-fighting arm fought what General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith called "the most savage and the most costly battle in the history of the Marine Corps...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The rumped-up Iwo Jima heroism and tragic alcoholic death of U.S. Marine Ira Hayes help make The American a bitter commentary on the life and hard times of America's Pima Indians. Stars: Lee (M Squad) Marvin and Steven Hill...