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Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Wednesday, Mar. 21, 19457 Iwo Battle Great V. S. Victo Get wise lots. D.

JJAKGQN Private Bruce Prepared For Battle Another Vivid Story of Iwo Jima perfect the wicked fields of cross-' fire on any approach we might choose. The Japs almost never showed themselves in daytime. The only sign of life from their side of the battlefield were wisps of smoke 04X ox Navy, Marine Job Was Superb in Execution they're all talking it "over there" from shells and bullets which they By PFC. J. H.

BINFORD. TJSMC at the back of his leg. And he didn't know it right away but it also blew the pack off his back and scattered the contents among the other junk on Iwo's beach. Thereafter, Jim went through the can Airways, W. A.

Ramsay, Honolulu Construction is Draying Co, California Packing Corp, and the Alakea GrilL British miners have given over $120,000 to the relief fund of the Czechoslovak mining village of Lidice which the Germans wantonly destroyed. Ecuador has extended credits to the city of Guayaquil for centralization there of an organization for the lowering of the cost of food throughout the country. Red Cross Tables Yield $5,341.82 The first day of operation of the 15 Red Ooss war fund tables set up throughout Honolulu's, business district yielded $5,341.82 toward the goal of $550,000. Total receipts on Oahu to date are $168,000. Firms whose employes have contributed 100 per cent include: Happy Inn, The Von Hamm-Young Ritz store, Pan Ameri It is nobody's fault unless you want to blame Mother Nature.

The Japs with a good sense of ground simply took careful advantage of defensive possibilities Iwo's terrain afforded them. dispatched in reply to ours. Some experts guess that 75 per cent of our boys who were killed never saw a iap daring the whole time they were on Iwo. By WILLIAM McGAFFIN War correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and North American Newspaper Alliance. In Hawaii his dispatches are carried exclusively by The Star-Bulletin.

This is the first of two analytical stories on the Battle of Iwo Jima. evacuation mill like thousands of Usually in battle, the percentage Despite their limitations against Jap caves, without the powerful others. At first it looked as though he would lose the leg but now he knows he won't Penicillin is con guns of our battleships and destroy ADVANCE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, Guam. It is possible that as few as 100 Japa ers, we probably never should haxp oi wounaea is considerably higher than dead. But in the last few days of the Iwo battle our dead have exceeded the wounded.

This was because of the close-in dangerous fighting in the rough, treacherous country somewhat resembling a se got ashore. The key to our successful land nese out of some 20,000 defend trolling the infection and the other day the doctors told him that the time will come when the leg will be nearly as good as the other. It will be six months before he gets out of bed, however, and a year Too vou (OLvvvws hideT ing the garrison, were killed by the By KEITII WHEELER War Correspondent for The Chicago Times and The North American Newspaper Alliance. Shot through the jaw at Iwo Jima on February 20, he is now at Aiea heights liaval hospital, Oahu, and, convalescing from his serious injury, is writing vividly of his experiences during and after the battle of Iwo Jima. AIEA NAVAL HOSPITAL, Oahu.

I don't know the percentage of people who write just-in-case letters the night before going into battle, but it is probably pretty high. Private James Bruce, 29, wrote one the night be- I fore the Iwo If landing and ad- dressed it to his JL wife Joyce Elaine at 521 North Filth 4 Vincennes, In- 1 diana. It isn't xf VI ing was the rolling barrage the naval guns laid ahead of the ma ries oi utue grana canyons. i rines as they came onto black sand preinvasion shelling and bombing delivered by our before he 11 walk. His leg will be stiff for a long time but it will be his leg and it will get better.

A platoon of 30 perhaps, would go in a canyon which had caves on either side. While our men were wiping out the caves on one side, the Japs from the other side would be picking them off. planes at Iwo Jima. But you dont get an opportunity to gather up many personal belongings after you have been hit, especially if they are scattered all Twenty out of 30 might be killed or over hell's half acre which Iwo That is the un- official but ex- pert opinion of ') amphibious war- fare specialists wounaea. (Another article describing the Iwo battle will follow.) mm 1 1 1 i -v Si with whom we talked while in obbp six mucn more tnan Eire's electricity shortage is reducing Dublin's trolley service.

was indeed. Somebody picked up the letter. The envelope was bloodied and muddy and it most have been obvious to whoever found it that "something" had happened to Private James Bruce. He mailed It Jim knows now that Joyce Elaine -vonr on that i in service vernacular, to give something the Deep Six is to hide Bruce was a central office repairman for the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and or bury it beaches.

The barrage kept the Japs in their holes and allowed our boys to get a footing. Once we had a safe beachhead, however, there came the job of advancing up the island and seizing ground foot by foot from the enemy. In this phase of the battle our light machinegun proved to be our most efficient weapon. There would come a time when the Japs would have to emerge from the caves and attempt to retreat or else be surrounded and captured. When they came out our troopers, lying in wait, would cut them down with machineguns.

Then the black sand would be splotched with red. The Japanese had caves from one end of this little island to the other and they stayed in them until the last moment. They fought from caves firing knee mortars at low angles so the projectiles would clear the mouths of caves, and firing machineguns through slits in boulders piled up protectively. By long experimentation before we ever landed they were able to received the letter February 26. From that day until March 9, Iwo was to be his first battle.

wheeler Joyce Elaine thought he was dead, Service Club Events THURSDAY PROGRAMS USO Army Navy Club 1:15 a. m. Sixteen Naturals. 11:43 p. m.

Movies. And so lie wasn't so sure how it For 11 days she had the letter and tried to understand that that was would be. He didn't really expect to Fin all she would ever have of Jim. NOTICE OF SALE Br S. IIDA STORE S.

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Dated at Honolulu, T. this 20th day of March, 1945. be hit nobody ever really believes Noon Dance class, beginners, waltz On March 9 she received his letter saying he had been wounded ana lox trot: Agnes Boone, director. It will happen to him. But he didn't know and any man would be a chump not to recognize the specting caves and underground McGaffin fortifications in which the Japanese sheltered at Iwo.

The Japanese escaped destruction by living 30 feet underground in caves blasted out of volcanic rock that our mightiest explosives couldn't penetrate. In some instances these caves and pillboxes were further bolstered by six foot thick slabs of steel reinforced concrete casing. The Japanese had food and water and were able to stay underground indefinitely. There was no way to tear them out except for courageous marines to go in "with bare hands," as one specialist put it This meant inevitably higher casualties. Tarawa's pillboxes up to now were considered the worst objective shellfire and bombing ever took on.

But Iwo eclipses them. but was alive. 12:30 p. m. Lounge sing, Carmen Symphony.

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So he wrote to Joyce Elaine. There isn't much a man can do about the future when he is going into battle, but he does the best he can. He told her about the insurance, and how to collect It There were a few things he wanted taken care of and he told her about those. He told her to take good care of the baby Patsy, now 13 months old not of course that he 1 didn't know Joyce Elaine would do everything for the He just wanted to say it himself so that she would know he felt the same way about Fatsy. Then he told Joyce Elaine how much he loved her and how he knew he would always love her whatever happened to his body.

"I The concert takes place Sunday. March 25 at 3:30 p. m. in the audi Aguiar, soprano. 6:45 p.

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m. Sketch class. Sergeant Nat Rose, instructor; models and materials available. Craft class, lauhala weaving, lei making, conducted by Miss Esther Jensen. Contract bridge.

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