Word: okinawa
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...when Admiral Nimitz flew in to Okinawa he brought a copy of TIME in his pocket for Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner...
...southern Okinawa the fighting was grim. By week's end the troops had gained from 800 to 1,400 yards, but had established no driving momentum. One village was won and lost again. "Buck" Buckner stuck to his formula-root them out "with blowtorch and corkscrew...
Rockefeller Jr., lost his individualistic Army-grown mustache when it was badly singed by flash burns in a Jap air attack off Okinawa. In a hospital on Guam with hand and face burns that will leave no scars, he pronounced himself "very lucky...
Finally, in the Okinawa invasion, he seemed to have found himself again. The Marines were apologetic, because the initial landing was so easy. "Brother," he told one of them, "I've had all the excitement I need for a lifetime...
...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...