Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
Died. General Graves B. ("Bobby") Erskine, U.S.M.C., 75, tough, battle-tested veteran of two world wars and commander of the 3rd Marine Division assault on Iwo Jima in 1945; after a long illness; in Bethesda, Md. Erskine was known as "the Big E" to his staff and "the Old Flamethrower" to his troops. During the bitter, 26-day battle for Iwo, his men suffered some 5,000 casualties, but launched the Pacific war's first major night attack against the Japanese, and were awarded the Presidential Citation for their heroism. In 1950 Erkskine was denied his request to take...
Tenth in his class at Annapolis, Cushman fought heroically in the Pacific theater, winning medals at Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima. In Viet Nam he was an able successor to General Lewis Walt as commanding general, 3rd Marine Amphibious Force. For the past 21 years he has served as deputy director of the CIA, missing much of the ferment and debate that has shaken the services...
...estimated 93,000 spectators turn out each summer to watch the Marines perform at the barracks or occasionally, at the Iwo Jima monument in Arlington, Va. Often there is a dinner party beforehand at the home of one of the barracks' resident generals. This evening, General Raymond G. Davis, Assistant Commandant of the Corps, is giving one for Under Secretary of the Navy John Warner. Just before 9 p.m., the dinner guests are escorted to special reserved seats. Suddenly, on the parade deck, the bugler sounds assembly; the sergeant major strides forward to replace him. With the command, "Post...
...pressure has crushed many war heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done...