Word: sherrod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...participate in ceremonies commemorating the 76 hours when the corps suffered 3,319 casualties, among them 1,027 dead. Some 4,700 Japanese also died in the invasion, the first in a series of amphibious operations that sent U.S. forces island-hopping across the Central Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant...
...newly discovered twist. Outdoor movies attract audiences of hundreds each evening (10? to sit on the ground, 20? upstairs). But blockhouses and rusting gun barrels still pock the landscape, and laborers regularly unearth skeletons that have been buried beneath the sand for a quarter-century. It all came back, Sherrod reported-"the sweetly sickening smell of death given off by thousands of bodies rapidly rotting in the tropical sun, the sight of an island stripped of every one of its many thousands of coconut trees...
From the mid-Pacific battleground, Sherrod cabled: "A small rock memorial near the Betio Club, blockhouses, big guns-everything but a few shot-up am-tracks visible at low tide belongs to the Japanese. It seems fitting to affix a bronze plaque at the base of a white pylon in memory of the United States Marines who won a unique battle there. They provided the lessons for the rest of the journey...
Squeak to Victory. Marshall could make mistakes, and his biographer follows the general's admirable practice of admitting them. For example, before Pearl Harbor, he told an incredulous correspondent, TIME'S Robert Sherrod, that in a future Pacific war, the role of heavy long-range bombers would be decisive. As it turned out, the B-17s produced no early miracles. After the Battle of Midway ("the closest squeak and the greatest victory"), it was clear to Marshall that the Navy's carrier-based fighter-bombers were the big weapon against Japan...
...have learned from Charles Sherrod, leader of the SNCC Southwest Georgia Project (Albany and surrounding counties), that I would probably be held on a bond of $3400 after being convicted Friday in municipal court. Since I am now out on $1900 bond (cash), an additional $1500 would be needed to get me out. Before trial, prisoners can be "farmed out" to jails in other towns, as was done with me for the three weeks I was in. After trial, however prisoners must be kept in the Albany jail, and male prisoners have several times been stuck in with toughs...