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...widow who has visited her husband's grave in the Pacific islands [like Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews-TIME, April 1]. My husband, Major Lloyd E. Whitley, Army Air Corps, was killed on Iwo Jima on March...
...stationed on Guam, and through the understanding and kindness of the command of the forward areas . . . was permitted to fly to Iwo...
...these bases were far from finished when Japan surrendered. Except in Hawaii, there had been little permanent construction, in iron and concrete, during the war. Kwajalein and Saipan, Iwo and Okinawa had been filled first with tents, then with temporary buildings such as Quonset huts. The life expectancy of these structures, under tropic rains and salt spray, is scarcely more than two years. If the bases were to be any good a few years hence, the corrugated iron must be replaced with reinforced concrete. At Wake, Marcus and Truk, where U.S. forces did not land until after the surrender...
...half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back to the Navy, as a commander; 5) to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as a press-relations handyman...
...gather about them in the papers and your magazine, seems to more interested in finding a central recreation spot than in mending the world's problems. . . . Why not set up a Quonset hut for them with hard chairs and with windows overlooking one of the cemeteries of Iwo Jima? Maybe they'd forget their country clubs and get down to business...