Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and now Okinawa. Without this spirit we could never have brought you the true picture of what this cruel war has meant to the boys who are doing the actual fighting...
...more than three years the Navy's biggest,*oldest carrier had fought through the Pacific war, taken two submarine torpedoes but never a hit from an enemy aircraft. On that February afternoon, as she was launching her own planes off Iwo Jima, nine Jap planes closed...
...various ways last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne...
That was the mission of all Marines-the 2nd at Tarawa, the 3rd, 4th, 5th at Iwo Jima. The new 6th Marine Division was also fighting on Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and the Marines had gallant Army company. Until recently when the 6th Marine Division joined them, all the heaviest fighting in the south had been done by the seasoned 7th, 27th and 77th Divisions, veterans of the Pacific campaign, and the 96th Division, blooded last year on Leyte...
Like Saipan and Iwo Jima, Okinawa was a base absolutely essential to the U.S. plan; it had to be taken, no matter how bloody the price. It was clear now that the final price would faithfully reflect Okinawa's ample size (921 square miles) and its suitable nearness to Japan (325 miles). For the moment, Okinawa was the vortex...