Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the Pacific Bob Sherrod went in with the doughboys and Marines who found the beaches of Okinawa so strangely deserted. It was "the kind of landing every correspondent who knows the Marines wanted to cover-particularly those of us who had been at Iwo Jima. This was the finest start of a battle our Marines and soldiers could hope for" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...miles closer to Tokyo. (In a historic 19 days-Jan. 31 to Feb. 19-the throbbing Navy, spread-eagling the Pacific, supported landings at Nasugbu on Luzon, bombarded Manila Bay, supported landings at Mariveles and Corregidor, made a carrier task force attack on Tokyo, supported the landings on Iwo Jima and bombarded Paramushiro-an area of operations covering 860,000 square miles...
From Okinawa this week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran observer of the battles of Attu, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, radioed...
Less than two weeks after the end of the Iwo Jima battle the U.S. Navy had assembled the greatest invasion armada ever to operate in the Pacific: 1,400 ships and up to 100,000 soldiers and marines of the new Tenth Army. When it was all ready, they poured this power into Japan's front yard...
...Shores of Iwo Jima (Paramount), a nine-minute newsreel taken by Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps cameramen of the fiercest fight in Marine Corps history, is worthy, or almost worthy, to rank with such great war records as With the Marines at Tarawa (TIME, March 20, 1944). Shot chiefly on a terrain as shapeless as an ash-heap, as mortally featureless and cryptic as the flank of Captain Ahab's White Whale in their ultimate engagement, it lacks the relative coherence and clarity of most of its predecessors. It demonstrates, in fact, more clearly than any previous film...