Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belsen Concentration Camp ("not a prisoner"), Rome (wartime), Shanghai and the North China coast, Kunming, Calcutta, Tokyo (wartime), "parts of the Marshalls, Gilberts and Marianas," Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tarawa...
...Southwest Pacific and Southeast Asia. Two teams of U.S. and Canadian Army doctors and scientists, seizing a ready-made opportunity to conduct one of the first big-scale studies ever made of white men in the tropics, examined thousands of U.S. and British soldiers on Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, Burma. Findings...
Since the war interrupted their basketball in 1943, the Whiz Kids of the University of Illinois had stopped being kids. The four who returned to school wore battle stars and three were married. Phillip, who had broken five conference records in 1943, had been a Marine lieutenant at Iwo Jima. Smiley fought in the Battle of the Bulge; 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Gene Vance had been a lieutenant in the ETO; Forward Ken Menke had been an artilleryman. The four were almost as spry as ever, and had to be, with the likes of Substitute Dwight Eddleman around...
Though three other officers and ten smaller fry were also on trial, archvillain of the piece was Major Sueyo Matoba, a slim, mild, scholarly Jap with a sadistic nature which had won him the nickname "Tiger of Chichi Jima." Major Matoba had stomach ulcers; he also loved sake...
...quarrel between two roommates, the achievement of gonorrhea by a seaman at an apparently barren island-but they are told with aptitude and humor. Author Heggen, 27, who now writes for the Reader's Digest, served aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, at Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, thereby seeing somewhat more action at sea than the Reluctant...