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TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod witnessed the faces of men fighting and dying on New Guinea, Attu, Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa. Last week he beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...
Marines who had seen battalions melt at Tarawa and Iwo Jima might tell...
...home islands by tactics similar to those used at Okinawa: no defense on the beach, retreat to strong positions, last-ditch defenses. The Japanese, however, still tried desperately to find a means to stop massed amphibious assaults at the water's edge. When the Marines were fighting on Iwo Jima, the high command pressed for development of an anti-landing craft weapon suitable for cheap, quick mass production. The fukuryus were the result...
...will reply, "Please bring him back." The War Department is studying a plan whereby, after an overseas cemetery has been 60% evacuated by request, the other 40% will be evacuated without request. This would almost certainly mean the abandonment of all far-flung World War II cemeteries-from Iwo Jima to Salerno-where U.S. dead have been laid to rest. Incomplete records listed 122,000 buried in the European Theater, 41,000 in the Mediterranean, 29,000 in the Southwest Pacific, 11,000 in Pacific Ocean areas. The cost of exhuming and transshipping all the shattered, canvas-wrapped remains might...
...qualities that makes Sherrod a great war reporter was revealed when he had a chance to go ashore on the lethal beach at Iwo Jima. The first night of the invasion a colleague urged him: "I wouldn't go there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay...