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...tenth day Major General Graves B. Erskine's hell-for-leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...
Between the tenth and 14th days the bloody battle seesawed back & forth. The 4th Division, veterans of Kwajalein, Saipan and Tinian, has taken Hill 382 six times, has lost it five times (they will not lose it again) when Jap fire became unbearable. In spite of this the 4th edged over, around and beyond 382, and the 5th pressed forward relentlessly. Meanwhile Erskine's regiments pierced the center, nearly split northernmost...
Bombs on a Bridge. Now the target was the sensitive Ryukyus, the 55-island bridge linking Formosa to Japan's main islands. From the carriers of Task Force 58 Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher hurled a Jap-estimated 600 planes at these islands. They roared out of the sky in the early morning and hammered all through the day at six of the islands...
...long and rocky stretched the road ahead. His men were still digging Jap stragglers out of Manila's hot rubble. Thirteen were taken in the Philippine General Hospital two weeks after it was captured. But the main Army forces, their work done, had turned away from the city, gone back to the jungles...
This week the Japanese defending Mandalay suddenly found themselves in the middle of a semicircle. General Slim had sprung tanks and airborne troops in a swift 85-mile dash from one bridgehead into Meiktila (70 miles south of Mandalay), to seize eight Jap airfields. There and on the way there the British killed 1,600 Japs. With one punch they had severed the enemy's land and water links from Rangoon to Mandalay, and had virtually cut off the main forces defending Burma. The next move was up to the Japs -if they could make...