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Along with the praise came inevitable murmurs that the sculptural symmetry of the picture was "too good to be true." Last week short (5 ft. 6 in.), bespectacled, mustached Associated Press Photographer Rosenthal, 33, camera veteran of Guadalcanal, Guam and Peleliu got back to the U.S. Said he: the picture was taken without one word of direction by him, was completely unposed...
Long after Peleliu had been secured, the "Gopher" went on with his work on Bloody Nose Ridge. The Gopher was a sniper, the best shot the Japanese had ever put against the Marines and more artful than most of his countrymen in the tricks of his trade...
Last week Hawaii's Governor Ingram M. Stainback announced that the overprint money would be discontinued as fast as it is used up, that regular U.S. currency was again legal. Admiral Nimitz, as commander of the Pacific Ocean areas (Kwajalein, Saipan, Peleliu, etc.), where the "Hawaii" greenbacks have also been used, concurred...
...Marines digging into Peleliu's blockhouses found a board inscribed in Japanese: "Defense to the death! We will build a barrier across the Pacific with our bodies...
Listeners to WOR and the Mutual Net work last week heard a marine's-eye view of the fight for Peleliu. The narrator was shy, wry Sergeant Alvin Flanagan, Ma rine combat correspondent and ex-WOR (Manhattan) announcer. Microphone in hand, FM-walkie-talkie strapped to his back, Flanagan landed on the beach at Peleliu with the ist Marine Division, describing the scene as he went. His account went to an associate aboard a Marine transport offshore, where it was recorded for last week's broadcast...