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There are many hundreds of thousands of us who have been here for anywhere from twelve to 30 months. Here in the Pacific are the men who fought back in the Philippines, myself and my own buddies who lived the nightmare of Iwo Jima, the survivors of Okinawa and Tarawa, and Saipan. What about...
...request to continue the draft of younger men in order that we may get the same consideration that our Congress is so willing to give to those who have not yet seen service, or have not yet seen action. Policing is a nasty job, but so was Iwo Jima. Don't make us do both...
...themselves fresh from the fronts #151; and many of the week-to-week cables from our correspondents now in the Pacific are being written into TIME by Bob Sherrod, perhaps the most shot-at correspondent of the whole Pacific war -on New Guinea and Attu, Tarawa and Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa...
...Army. The tough brown soldiers, ragged, weary, grim, clung to packed trains and swarmed the roads, following the long way home from war. City dwellers cheered them, but unbombed rustics, who could not understand the surrender, jeered. The main Jap army was unbeaten in the field, but Leyte, Iwo Jima, Saipan, Okinawa had convinced Japan's rulers that their army could not win a battle...
...Jima, halfway between Saipan and Japan...