Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the 5th Marine Division cemetery was dedicated on bloody, windswept Iwo Jima, the sermon was delivered by the division's Jewish chaplain, Roland B. Gittelsohn. Said...
...wrote to his wife on March 31: "I've promised myself and I promise you that if I come through this one I will never go on another one." But there was a sideline invasion coming up, on the ten-mile square isle of le Jima, three miles off Okinawa, and Pyle went along...
...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...
...year-old marine, veteran of Iwo Jima, lay aboard a U.S. hospital ship, dying of a malignant growth in his throat...
...Future, turned out by radio's Super-scriptster Norman Corwin. To air "the hopes and expectations of the common people," Corwin will bring in short-wave testimonials from six continents (including a G.I. on the western front, a Red Army soldier in Moscow, a U.S. chaplain on Iwo Jima, a Mexican in Chapultepec, a guerrilla in Manila, a schoolboy in Monte video, Actor Paul Robeson in Chicago, Artist Thomas Hart Benton in Kansas City, Cinemactress Bette Davis in Hollywood...