Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Madrid nor Stalingrad nor Cassino had the elements of this fantastic fight for Intramuros . . ." And still another comes from Bob Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea and Attu, of Tarawa and Saipan, who landed with the Marines on Iwo Jima : "Shortly before we hit the beach three mortar shells dropped in the water beyond us, but the Higgins boat crunched on the shore and without even getting our feet wet we ran up the steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets...
Radio Tokyo last week described the defender of Iwo Jima, Lieut. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, as a commander whose "partly protruding belly is packed full of strong fighting spirit." It quoted him: "This island is the front line that defends our mainland, and I am going to die here...
Some of the war's best photographs carhe out of the Pacific last week. The up-close, thick-of-battle quality of the pictures was evidence of the bravery and skill of the photographers on Iwo Jima, who worked in such a din of artillery and mortar fire that one of them, the A.P.'s bespectacled Joe Rosenthal, reported that he could not hear his shutter click. The speed with which the pictures appeared in U.S. newspapers was evidence of the Navy's growing press-sense...
...Harbor, which meant it got to the U.S. eight to fourteen days late. Then the Navy yielded to press complaints, sent censors along with its forward units. Finally, at Palau, news was filed directly from an admiral's flagship as soon as radio silence could be broken. Iwo Jima's press arrangements were better still...
...most likely candidate to become the Navy's top public relations man when and if Rear Admiral A. S. ("Tip") Merrill goes back to sea. Captain Miller's go-ahead stems from the fight of press-conscious Navy Secretary James Forrestal (a -spectator at Iwo Jima last week) to loosen the tongues of the Navy's tight-lipped top admirals. Secretary Forrestal has made it plain that the Navy must make friends with its employer, the U.S. people...