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...much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...
...summer grasses are especially lush where it is always summertime: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tinian, Luzon, Iwo Jima-World War II battle sites where hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers died in a losing cause. But rather than rely on troubadours to describe the battlegrounds, many Japanese are making the grim journey to these islands in the sun. Not incidentally they have spawned a lucrative sideline for Japan's booming tourist industry-senseki jumpai, or battlefield pilgrimages...
...explosions and great whirlpools in the sea. Now the source of all this spectacular activity in the Pacific, 590 miles south of Tokyo, has come into view. With a series of deafening explosions, a newly born volcano has reared out of the sea, adding another small island to the Iwo Jima chain. After flying over the belching volcano last week, Japanese officials reported that the northern edge of the doughnut-shaped crater has risen some 160 ft. above sea level and the southern edge about 65 ft. Debris from the eruption has turned the Pacific reddish brown for miles around...
...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...