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Like her sister cans, she seldom figured in communiques, but she was beloved by the big ships whenever there was trouble. ("Screen us, Pat!") She rescued 124 men from the blazing Ommaney Bay. She rescued 106 survivors of the Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jima. She fought off Okinawa. When there was nothing else to do she carried the mail...
General Joe Stilwell, who should know, volunteered a definition of a G.I.: "A special brand of American who inhabited North Africa, France, Italy, Germany, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Luzon, Burma, China, Iceland, India, Korea, Japan and other places, from 1941 to 1945 . . . swears in good style, likes pretty girls, milk, steak, beer, cheesecake and swing music, and is a sucker for a place called the U.S. . . . hates Japs, Germans, C rations and draft dodgers...
Like most other soldiers, he knew terrible fear. He conquered it with prayer. During the fighting on Guam and Leyte he became famous among the hardbitten men of the 77th Division for his serene recklessness in the face of death. In the nerve-racking weeks of the Okinawa campaign, his fame grew...
Lieut. Commander Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who topped off his five years in service with combat duty off Okinawa and an assignment to the Naval War College at Newport, changed his mind about making the Navy a career and got his discharge. He announced the purchase of a country house in Republican-voting Woodbury, L.I., not far from the Oyster Bay stamping ground of the other (Theodore) Roosevelts...
When it headed for the Pacific, the 6th Marine Division boasted enough football talent to line up three all-star teams. Now, on the way back, the 6th would be hard-pressed to muster one full team. Some of those lost on Okinawa: Killed-Wisconsin's 1942 All-America end, 1st Lieut. Dave Schreiner; Purdue's 1943 All-America fullback (and leading Big Ten scorer), Corporal Tony Butkovich; Notre Dame's 1942 captain and end, 1st Lieut. George Murphy...