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...point, the Army chief of staff, General Dwight Eisenhower, became so angry at Radford that he refused to attend a J.C.S. meeting because Radford was present. But on his trip to Korea last December, Ike got a different impression of the Pacific Fleet Commander. At a dinner in Iwo Jima. Radford held Ike and his party spellbound with a brilliant review of Asian problems and their relation to world strategy. When Secretary Wilson recommended Radford to head the Joint Chiefs, the President approved...
...fuel stops, nobody was allowed to get off. Beyond Midway, the press plane developed engine trouble. When it messaged its plight to Ike's plane, security permitted only a cold response of "message received." The press plane limped into Wake Island for repairs. Ike went on to Iwo Jima, landed in time for an evening pilgrimage to the Marine Corps' famed battle monument on Mount Suribachi...
...World War II he proved his capacity for high command as the Marines fought their way up the Central Pacific amid the deadly crash of island war: Tarawa. Saipan, Iwo Jima, Peleliu. Shepherd whipped the 9th Marine Regiment into combat shape, went ashore at Cape Gloucester as assistant commander of the famed First Division. He invaded Guam at the head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines...
...divorce suit that his wife Celia 1) put broken glass in his bed, 2) hid his car keys and let the air out of his tires, 3) beat him with her shoes. 4) threatened to poison him, 5) was more trying, all in all, than the Iwo Jima campaign had been, Marine Veteran George Bushmire summed it all up: "She didn't cooperate in making our marriage work...
...grooms have included an executive of Douglas Aircraft Co., a Phi Beta Kappa from Western Reserve, an atomic scientist and Nelson's own brother-in-law. This week one of the grooms was Jacklyn Lucas, 24, who as a 17-year-old Marine corporal on Iwo Jima was the youngest man ever to win the Medal of Honor...