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Neither Madrid nor Stalingrad nor Cassino had the elements of this fantastic fight for Intramuros . . ." And still another comes from Bob Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea and Attu, of Tarawa and Saipan, who landed with the Marines on Iwo Jima : "Shortly before we hit the beach three mortar shells dropped in the water beyond us, but the Higgins boat crunched on the shore and without even getting our feet wet we ran up the steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets...
...Navy promptly released casualty figures, issued a tactical explanation of why Iwo could not have been bypassed...
Just 17½ hours after the Marines landed on Iwo, the first invasion shots reached the U.S. They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...
...Pearl Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better still...
...kind, is the most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller's go-ahead stems from the fight of press-conscious Navy Secretary James Forrestal (a -spectator at Iwo Jima last week) to loosen the tongues of the Navy's tight-lipped top admirals. Secretary Forrestal has made it plain that the Navy must make friends with its employer, the U.S. people...