Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombing Japan from the Marianas, near their extreme round-trip range (3,600 miles), the Superfortresses now have a handy way station-Iwo Jima-on which to land when they are lamed in combat or too short of fuel to make it back to Guam, Saipan or Tinian. Fighter escort from Iwo has also helped to cut losses. Result: the Jap airfields on Kyushu have taken a persistent beating, and enemy fighter production has been cut 50%. In April, the B-295 unloaded 30,000 tons of bombs-as much as in the ten preceding months-but U.S. losses dropped...
...mails hand-painted greetings to TIME'S Pacific Pony Edition "for making this war i) bearable 2) understandable for those of us out here" on Saipan-see cut. . . . "You will be interested to hear that TIME was flown in and distributed to the Marines fighting on Iwo Jima the first day transport planes landed on the island. TIME brought many fellows 'home' if only for a short time," writes Lieutenant Philip Schneider of The Leatherneck's Pacific staff...
Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
...this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told." Said General Eisenhower: "All of us here have lost one of our best and most understanding friends." The G.I.s he wrote about paid their respects too. On Ie Jima, Corporal Landon Seidler fashioned a handmade wooden casket for him. Soldiers nailed Pyle's dogtags on the top, and buried him on le beside the G.I. dead. For the spot where he had fallen, Corporal Seidler carved a wooden plaque: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy...
Died. Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, 44, most beloved of U.S. war correspondents; by Jap machine-gun fire; on newly invaded le Jima (see PRESS...