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1 Thursday eveninc THE DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADER February 22, 1915 S9 Invasion Beach on Iwo Jima Is Scene of Indescribable Wreckage Iwo Jima Really 'Hell Island i 5 1 7- 1 3 fered heavy casualties in killed and wounded. And there were the aid and evacuation stations which couldn't move up to the comparative safety of the forward area. Our battalion aid station lost 11 of its ti corps-men in the first two days. Death Is not a pretty sight, but it has taken possession of our beach. An offiecr in charge of a tank landing boat received a direct shell hit while trying to free his boat from the sand.

He was blown in half. A life preserver supports the trunk of his body In the water. Marines killed on the beach were buried under the sand as the tide came in. On the third day we began to get vehicles and supplies ashore in quantity. Wire matting made the beach passable and naval gunfire knocked out most of the Jap artillery.

The miracle was that we were able to supply our 1iik; at all during the two days of increasing shelling on this beach. The boys ho did it, as the saying goes, deserve a 'medal, but a lot of them won't be around when the medals are passed out. i Niriii pkf.ss. Iwo Jima could well be named "Hell Island" where a battle beyond comparison with anything else anywhere is raging, a correspondent said Thursday in a pooled broadcast from Admiral Richmond K. Turner's flagship off the island.

"The situation was terrific from first one side and then the other. Rut the marines arc going ahead and they're driving the Japs hack," the correspondent said. "I saw the bravest guys in the world hiding In foxholes, running forward in a crouch, leaping into Japanese emplacements and then finishing off the enemy at close quarters. Voti know it takes guts to fight that way. "Replacements are constantly moving forward.

There are Japanese bodies everywhere, too, and that makes you feel just a little better." He said the Japanese artillery and rockets and the American warship bombardment thruout the night "makes a hell if there ever was one and that is Iwo Jima. "Jap mortar and artillery fire is everywhere. H'hen reinforcements arrive there is a 'Hail, hail, the ammunition is here. We've got to have ammunition. "The beach itself is littered with scores of landing craft.

"There is nothing anywhere to compare with the battle of this island the battle of Iwo Jima." supplies moved by hand to the front. Even the unconquerable jeep was stuck. One can see amphibian tractors turned upside down like pancakes on a griddle; derricks brought ashore to unload cargo are tilted at insane angles where shells blasted them; anti-tank guns were smashed before they had a chance to fire a shot. Even some bulldozers landed too early to clear a path for following vehicles. Artillery could not be landed for 24 hours.

Packs, clothing, gas masks and toilet articles, many of them ripped by shrapnel, are scattered across the sand for five miles. Scattered amid the wrerkaue is death, Perhaps the real heroes of this battle for Iwo Jima are the boys who sweated out the invasion. They are the coxswains who steered the landing bouts thru a gantlet of fire and who didn't get hack. They are the unloading parties who for one entire day unloaded hardly a boat because few boats made it. Instead they hugged the beach while shells hit into the sand all around them.

On D-Day beach parties suf Bv STAFF SFlKiT. liAVU) DFMI'SFV. Marine I'orpi ('nmtiat correspondent. IHsmhulrd by lulled Press, Iwo Jima. (UP) The invasion beach of this island, stormed four days jiro by marines in the face of blistering Japanese mortar and artillery fire, Thursday is a scene of indescribable wreckage all of it ours.

For two miles extending northward from Mt. Suvibachi at the southern tip of the island is a thick layer of debris. Wrecked hulls of scores of boats testify to the price we paid to get our troops ashore on this vital island. For two continuous days and nights, Japanese artillery, rockets and heavy mortars laid a curtain of fire alonff the shore. Their weapons had been aiim'd at the beach Ion before we landed.

They couldn't miss and they didn't. Volcanic sand on this beach is so, soft that many of our vehicles were mired down before they had gone 10 feet. In addition, a terrace a few yards from the water hampered their movements so that they became an easy prey for Japanese gunners. Only a few trucks got ashore and for two days practically all ji-y a it 1 rlf 1 1 1 1 .1 REPATRIATES CHEER RETURN TO U. S.

a trow of maimed r. s. i. dim line the rail of the S. S.

Gripsholm to cheer their first sisht of the New York skyline as they move toward the Jersey City dock and home. The Gripsholm returned to the 1'. S. 463 American exchange prisoners, 623 civilians, 42 U. S.

merchant seamen and "8 Canadian soldiers on her latest voyage. (International Soundphoto) 21 Iowans Among First Non-Combatant Troops to Be Repatriated in This War SPELLING DI DATE. Wapello, la. The annual Louisa county spelling bee will be held in the local high school Saturday, March 21, Miss Ada Smith, county superintendent, has announced. Contests are being held in the rural and grade schools to select representatives for the county event.

The average woman's idea of a mean husband is one who never raves over the new dress until lie gets a bill fur it. EXCHANGE CLUB WILL HEAR TALK ON PENICILLIN Dr. Andrew Woofter, of the Iowa state board of health, will I speak on "Penicillin," at the weekly meeting of the Exchange club at the Hotel B'ackhawk Fri-; day noon. He will be introduced by Dr. Robert E.

Jameson, who is in charge of the program. 1 BUV WAR BOVDS TODAY. Heart-Tugging Reunions for Repatriates Washington AD The War I aboard the Gripsholm hen it i docked with its latest cargo from i department Wednesday listed the i names of 21 lowans who are among the first non-combatant inside enemy Europe. Wives and By JACK ROWLES. New York.

(UP) The room was filled with next of kin and a low hum of conversation. A youn? man in a dusty blue jacket and stocking cap walked in. A woman in a gray suit sprang from her chair and screamed: "There's my boy!" She ran to him and crabbed him as tho she were drowning. She buried her head in his collar and cried without control. "There's my boy, there's my boy, there's my boy." She couldn't stop.

There were 4G3 American soldiers among. the 1,206 civilians troops repatriated in this war. Thev will arrive early in March at Charleston, S. from Marseilles. The non-combatants, who the War department said are not treated as prisoners of war and are IHUtSUAY, HUUAY and SATLK1MY Tsabelle S.

Seidcl, mother, Water-i loo. 1 Slavens, Charles T4. -Mrs. Rhodia Slavcns, mother, Cincinnati. Smokstad, Keith IV, Staff Mrs.

Hazel A. Smokstad, mother; Fort Dodge, Sparks, Russell -Thomas J. Sparks, father, Maxwell. Spiegel, John George W. Spiegel, father, Ocheycdan.

Tadewald. Robert Mrs. Helen J. Tadewald. mother, 701 Walnut street, Muscatine.

Terris. John T5. Mrs. Mary Terris, mother, 301 Jones street, Dubuque. Warner, Clifton T5.

Wilda N. Warner, mother, Des Moines. White, Vincent Archie R. White, father, 11)08 Doty street, garet Hayes, mother, Route No. 1, Correctionville.

Houghton. Robert Tfc Fay Houghton, mother. Dcs Moines, James, Morris TV, T5 Rov James, father, R. F. D.

No. 1, Newton. Moughler, Ansel C. Pfc Marion M. Moughler, father, Troy.

Ondre.ika, John Staff John Ondrejka, father, Fort Dodge. Owen. Melvin T5. Ralph E. Owen, father, Tirton.

Reichert, Dale Staff M. Reichert, father, Vincent. Salvatore. Benjamin. T5, Mrs.

Anntonnet Salvatore, mother, Fort Dodge. Schribcr. Clarence Mrs. Anna E. Iiobbins, mother, Livermore.

Seidcl. Verne T5, Mrs. (iff repatriated as quickly as possible, consist of medical department officers and enlisted men. The Iowans and their emergency addresses were: Bilterman, Herman l5, Herman H. Bilterman, father, Avery.

De Cries, Marion, Mrs. Jennie De Cries, mother, Route 2, Orange City. Gaulke, Avion 174, Mrs. Sara Gaulke, mother, Dows. Hayes, Joe F.

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I. BATHES AS VISITORS GAPE TOT SWAPS BITE WITH PET POOCH mothers wailed for their men, home at last from the war. This mother was Mrs. Elhel Rig-gins, Norfolk, Va. She sat clown, still clutching her son's coat.

The boy choked, come on, Mom. I'm all right." The reunion was Wednesday night at the Wilshire House, merchant seamens' land quarters. The boy was George Allen Riggins, returned from two and a half years in a German prison camp. He was a wiper aboard the S. S.

Carlton when the ship was torpedoed by a Nazi submarine in 1942. The front door of Wilshire House opened and a ruddy man in civilian clothes came in, puffing on a stump of cigar. Capt. Henry Stephenson, tho man who told his Nazi captors he'd smoke his own cigars in preference to theirs, looked over the heads of the crowd and spotted his wife. He beamed, and his eyes misted.

In a moment they were embracing and saying hackneyed things that sounded new and meaningful the way they said them. The New Rochelle, N. skipper, veteran of 50 years' seafaring, appeared in fine condition. Thirty pounds lighter after German prison camp life which Stephenson said "I could afford to lose it." Life as a prisoner, he said, was "nothing tough." What about those cigars he took aboard the Nazi submarine? "They didn't last long," he said. "When they gave out I was off cigars." The Nazis had offered him their stogies when he was taken aboard their submarine.

He refused. lie who understands nil his thoughts does little thinking. Camp Bowie, Texas. (UP) OVERSEAS MAILING New-Car Beauty the Easy Way PoU-IVg Cleans, Polishes, Waxes CAES TOM "10. one tasy rn rn Operation! Jfa Toledo.

Ohio. (UP) Skippy Sot even with bis mistress, Karen Conipton. He bit her back. Karen was attending an imaginary film in an imaginary theater. Her dotf wouldn't sit still so she could "see" the picture.

Red-haired, fiery-tempered Karen bit him on the back and leg. Skippy retaliated by tasting a bit of Karen's rosy check. Karen and Skippy are friends again, but both are a little subdued. TWO WILLS ARE FILED IN COURT The wills of Mrs. Bertha Thele-man, who died Feb.

12, and F. Buttei field, ho died Feb. ti, hav i been filed for probate in the Scott county district court by Attorneys Harold W. I loer.se and Merle F. Wells resicetivcly.

With the exception of a berpiest to a son, Robert, the entire Thelenian eslale is to be divided equally among three sons, Milo I.eroy and Robert A. Thelenian, the last of whorri is named executor. The widow, Mrs. Flla Butter-field, is sole heir to her husband's estate, according to the will. She' also is named executrix.

Sometimes a letter carrier is just nn nviti pvin Reg. 59c Pint A KJ AY soap Staff Serst. Richard F.arle hinks he should fcet a medal for devo-jtion to duly. He says lie doesn't mind suffer- ing the wear, tear and horror of the battlefield. i But he thinks things went a llt-jtle too far when he was ordered to spend the day demonstrating how! tho OI washes for gaping visitors I at Camp Bowie.

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