Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million base took some building. Going ashore, the landing parties got stuck in volcanic beach powder deeper and dustier than Iwo Jima's. At first, the G.I.s ate corn willie three times a day, supplemented with what they could shoot and fish. Wild goats gnawed their communication lines to pieces. Moths followed smokers and smothered out cigarets. By Christmas 1941, the Navy log read: 'All hands tireder than all hell...
During the last six months Sherrod has traveled 25,000 miles trying to keep up with the news in Southeast Asia and the western Pacific. The Pacific-from Attu to Iwo Jima -was his stamping ground in World War II, and we sent him back there after the war on a roving commission to go anywhere his news judgment dictated. His work to date is fairly typical of the postwar trials, tribulations and rewards of a TIME correspondent...
...been picked up along the road by an affable man in a big open car, had chatted with him about the capture of Iwo Jima, where he had been wounded...
Even on barren island outposts like Ascension or Iwo Jima the G.I. had his garden sass. Hydroponics made it possible. Before World War II this scientific art of growing plants without soil in chemically treated water had been mostly Sunday supplement stuff. But the Army had read the supplements. It put hydroponics to work...
...widow who has visited her husband's grave in the Pacific islands [like Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews-TIME, April 1]. My husband, Major Lloyd E. Whitley, Army Air Corps, was killed on Iwo Jima on March...