Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Recently I read a description of the battle of Iwo Jima. There still remains that depressing journalistic tradition of comparative analysis: "the bloodiest battle of the war," "toughest fight in Marine history," etc. . . . A battle is each man's personal hell. It is fought personally, felt intimately, and death is the individual's own contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights...
...George! In Washington, Mrs. Martha Johnson, whose husband George is serving in the Navy, named their twin sons Iwo and Jima...
Here was no Iwo Jima. On this island, 60 miles long and two to 20 miles wide, there was room to land and maneuver. Jap opposition on the beach was almost nonexistent. Quickly the troops moved inland through a maze of tiny one-and two-acre farms. They spread north and south, pushed eastward. Still resistance remained slight. Some men marched a mile without hearing a shot...
...marines who had been through Iwo Jima wrote to their parents, trying to tell them something about...
...Providence, R.I.: "I . . . hope to get back to my outfit in the near future. I've got more to fight for now as most of my buddies will be staying on that island forever. People back home will never know what it was like to take Iwo Jima. . . . All the time . . . I never feared for myself be cause I knew the Lord was with...