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...innocence and a trusting heart, to turn a bedizened sinner (Marlene Dietrich) into a good woman and to preserve the honor of the U.S. Navy as well. Only very rarely is Wayne shown to be mortal-or at any rate expendable-as in the bloody Sands of Iwo Jima (1950). But even...
...deals with the awakening continent of Asia and the fighting in Korea as well as with Japan's meteoric rise & fall. Included in the welter of history are such memorable vignettes as the chaos of Pearl Harbor, the raising of the U.S. flag on the summit of Iwo Jima, the cloud of smoke & fire above Hiroshima. To keep abreast of the news, MOT will not shoot until the last minute some of the footage for the last of the 26 installments...
...battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton (as it probably was) [TIME, Sept. 17], then Iwo Jima and the Bulge were won on thousands of football fields in the U.S., where hundreds of thousands of stout-hearted young men have played their hearts out for the kind of honor that is not vitiated by the artificial codes of caste-conscious military gentlemen. RUDOLPH FIEHLER Magnolia...
Before World War II, the U.S. Army began experimenting with water culture at isolated outposts such as Wake Island, later carried the experiments on at Ascension Island and Iwo Jima. In 1946, it started hydroponic installations for U.S. occupation forces in Japan, where tillable soil is scarce. The farms are run by a peppery, 58-year-old horticulturist named Kendrick Blodgett, who has been growing vegetables out of water and chemicals for 15 years...
...Senator Harry S. Truman, christened the battleship Missouri. The "Big Mo," as the ship came to be called, displaced 45,000 tons, had a top speed over 30 knots, a deadly main battery of nine 16-inch rifles. She first fired her guns in anger at Iwo Jima and Okinawa ; before the war ended, she had been hit by a Japanese suicide plane (but suffered no casualties and slight damage). On her broad deck, in 1945, the Japanese signed their surrender. By 1948 the Missouri was the only U.S. battleship in commission...