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...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, only twelve days more than the time originally estimated for its capture. In overall U.S. casualties it was indeed the bloodiest campaign of the Central and Western Pacific, but in proportion to the harm done the enemy, it was far from being the most costly. At Tarawa, where an estimated 5,000 Japs died or were captured, 1,000 Americans died and 2,000 were wounded-an overall casualty ratio of 5-to-3. On Saipan the ratio was only 7-to-4; Palau, less than...
That was the mission of all Marines-the 2nd at Tarawa, the 3rd, 4th, 5th at Iwo Jima. The new 6th Marine Division was also fighting on Okinawa (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and the Marines had gallant Army company. Until recently when the 6th Marine Division joined them, all the heaviest fighting in the south had been done by the seasoned 7th, 27th and 77th Divisions, veterans of the Pacific campaign, and the 96th Division, blooded last year on Leyte...
Buckner was still in Alaska, still watching, when Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz launched the drive across the Central Pacific that was to cut a fiery path through Tarawa, Makin, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Angaur, Iwo Jima. Battles were fought with companies, regiments, divisions. That march was still in progress last June, when Buckner at last got the word to go to Washington, then to Hawaii to organize a full-fledged army...
From Okinawa this week TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, veteran observer of the battles of Attu, Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, radioed...