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Last week on le Jima, Ernie Pyle, 44, met death from a Jap machine-gunner's bullet...
When the 5th Marine Division cemetery was dedicated on bloody, windswept Iwo Jima, the sermon was delivered by the division's Jewish chaplain, Roland B. Gittelsohn. Said...
...wrote to his wife on March 31: "I've promised myself and I promise you that if I come through this one I will never go on another one." But there was a sideline invasion coming up, on the ten-mile square isle of le Jima, three miles off Okinawa, and Pyle went along...
...this war has so well told the story of the American fighting man as American fighting men wanted it told." Said General Eisenhower: "All of us here have lost one of our best and most understanding friends." The G.I.s he wrote about paid their respects too. On Ie Jima, Corporal Landon Seidler fashioned a handmade wooden casket for him. Soldiers nailed Pyle's dogtags on the top, and buried him on le beside the G.I. dead. For the spot where he had fallen, Corporal Seidler carved a wooden plaque: "At this spot the 77th Infantry Division lost a buddy...
...days earlier, day raiders escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...