Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...physical resources to dissipate our patrimony, generation after generation, in this manner." Naval operations in World War II had indicated clearly which were the important bases. Among them: Kwajalein and Eniwetok in the Marshalls; Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas; the Palaus, and perhaps such farflung winnings as Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
Japan paid dearly last week for the failure of its troops on Iwo Jima. Over Nippon's home islands, flying protection for Superfortresses, roared fast PSI Mustang fighter planes from Iwo's fields, 760 miles away. In the greatest air battle ever to rage in Japanese skies, they helped send 173 enemy planes spinning down, raising Japan's week-end air loss to a calamitous 600-plus...
Buckner was still in Alaska, still watching, when Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched the drive across the Central Pacific that was to cut a fiery path through Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Iwo Jima. Battles were fought with companies, regiments, divisions. That march was still in progress last June, when Buckner at last got the word to go to Washington, then to Hawaii to organize a full-fledged army...
...fighting was bound to come. But he knew, too, that Japan's best chance to turn back this invasion-the period when the first troops were coming ashore-was gone. Perhaps counting too much on a three or four months' delay between the end of the Iwo Jima fighting and the start of the next U.S. operation, the Japs had delayed reinforcing Okinawa's garrison. Certainly the Japanese commander had pulled a major blunder; he had prepared for attack from the east and south, found himself fighting an attack from the west...
...Jima, Okinawa, the fire raids on Tokyo and Nagoya rang in Jap ears like an overture to defeat. Moscow's denunciation of the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact sounded like the very crack of doom...