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Gene Smith is a great photographer for LIFE, rather than a correspondent for TIME. But the letter he wrote Correspondent Shelley Mydans the night before he was wounded on Okinawa is so filled with the spirit with which so many other TIME & LIFE men have shared the dangers of our troops in a hundred battles that I believe you should...
...Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and now Okinawa. Without this spirit we could never have brought you the true picture of what this cruel war has meant to the boys who are doing the actual fighting...
...days after Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the Tenth Army, was killed in battle, General MacArthur appointed "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell as his successor. Buckner had been fighting in an area (Okinawa) supposedly controlled by Admiral Nimitz. But word trickled through that Admiral Nimitz was as satisfied with the Stilwell appointment as was the U.S. generally...
Corporal John C. Corbett of the 8th Marines had won a signal honor. He picked up a stone and hurled it with all his strength from the low cliffs of southern Okinawa into the blue waters which lapped the shore. That stone's splash meant that the eleven-week drive by U.S. forces from the center of the island had at last reached the southern...
Credit Side. To the Japanese, the cost of defeat on Okinawa was staggering...