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t
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ODY: -
I
I
m
roa
t·no
thi
m
nin
'
from the
ba
e
of
a
fa
oul
e
ing
vol
no,
.
ht
at
the
r
front
oor
to
Japa1.
The
nae
of
th vol
nc is
Su abach ·
Fro
1
th
t
you will
kr,~
that this
is
co in
throu h by
Short
ave,
f
om
spot
t bat b s
cos
t
u s
or e 1
·
v
fo
v
size than
any
la
eon
earth, the island
of
I o
i
a.
arine
came in
here
last Febru
y
19th.
It
a
n
the
23rd that
they
took
Su
yard
from this
bile
t
n
, th
t
1c~
fro
hich I
am
broad-
ca ting.
as the
day
e
photo
h
a
ta en
i
h
hich
you
re
all
f
mili
r.
Op to
arch
16th
so
e
f
ur
t
OU
and
of
our
boy
ha
been ki
le
'
.th
0
th
n
f i f t
en
t
0
n
i
in
r
u
nc
th
'
a
t
ey
e
t i l l
hu
n
out of
C
h
e
on
t
OU
in
jutti
0
0
h
se
since
'
th
_
0
y
n
orce
s
have
l
d anotb r
y
-
i
hun
red
J
h
th Ja
e
on
I
0
J·m
u
to
e
n
t
nty-four and t enty-five
thou
and.
11
e
xce
t
le
an t
hundred
ta en
ri
oner_
I
f
le
in he
y
sterday
·th the
Chief
oft
A
y
Air Force, G ne
1
rnold,
aa
the
man
o
co
man
our Ai
Fo c
fightin
the
Japs in
thi
par
of
the
o 1 , Gen
al
Barney
Giles. One
f
the
fir
t
t
·
ings
Gene
_
al Arnol
did, before
e climbed
to the
summit
of
th volcano,
as
to
decorate
some
of the
boy
ho
done a pa ticula
ly
tout
j
b
The
J
p
still rai
Io. Suici e
rai
s. They did_'t co
over
wh
t
last nig
,
by
h
ay.
But, he
e
is/on
of
the
it t i n
·t
bas
to
o
·th
a au
r .
e Jap
att
C :
"
on
b
·o
a
ene
in
th
e r
1y
o
n in
by
th
soun
of heavy
f"
e,
Li
n nt
oon "
(L'
ut.
I
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Joe
on
s
0
inn
ao
ta
i
a
t
11
0
-
boul
r
d
ai
an,
ith
hi
h
cheekbone
n
ee
Utl
n
eye
)
-
then
it
goe
0
t
say,
"a
aken
in
h
e
earl
y morn-
ing
by
the sound
0
heavy
ire,
Lt.
Coon
di
covered
that the ene
y
ha
begun
fi
ring
and
thro
in
gr
nade
into
t.
e
ten area.
"
ith
tot
1
isregard
for
his
own
afety, the citati
o
n
oe
on to
ay
that
Lt.CoaA&
"opened fire on the invaders with
his pi
tol,w from
in
ide
his tent. Then he
ent
on out of the tent to
get a b
_
tter shot
at
the Jap, and a
it
add, •he
oved from one enemy posit·on to another, thro
·
ing
hand
grenades and firin
0
his pistol.
Cra ling over
the rough lava
urface
e.n
·
..
\
t'
alJ.
this island
..
of
1
va
he "era led
c,o
it
hi
r~
a
fe
18,
a
as
--
feet
of
an
e
y
e
trenchm nt
contain
in
about
t
enty-
s·x
Japs."
The
he
roceede
to
kill
more
thRn
h
lf
of
th
e
Fo
t
is Gene
~
l
rnol
pinned
a
ilver
.
·
tar
o~
hi
.
l
-
4
-
i
s
h
I
co
u
l
e
a
a
1
0
.
e
... it
i
on
to
ou.
ey
a
h
a
e
0
0
1
h
a
i
ly
8
of
b
a
v
ry
n
t
i
s
f
n asti
a
e
-
of-
he
-
onlike
isl
rd
·th·
a
o
rt
fli h
f
the
ain
i
1
n
of
J
pa
.
In
eneral
Arnold'
"
p
ne,t
b
t
hfi.
a
been
flying
ra· n
over
the
a
.
.:,
.
l
~
l
C
,
in
a
1iti
n
to
"en
al Gile
wh
o
he
ic
eri
up
a
G
a
t
the
e
ere
s
ix
er
of
hi
s
aff, five
e be
s
of
the
crew,
an
is
~
a
pproa
he
I
0
J i a
~
s
uadron
of
P-51s,
a
·
e
u
and
e
n
and
escor
gd
9
on in.
Tba
in
it elf
a
at
'2~
th
i
l i
g,
see
in
the
""a
euve
a
k
an
for
h,
0
er
nd
under
s, against
he
i l
1
~l
s
f
ra
1
a
a
on.
n
e
p
ab
a
,
he
e
wa
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dis
t
r
e
ss
on
th
i
r
ay
b
a
c
k
fr
o
m bombi
n
g
J
ap
an
p
r
o
per
,
a
n
i the te
n
s
an
u
anset
h
u
s
of
the tens
of
th
ou
sa
n
ds of men wh
o servi
ce
th
e row upon row
of plan
es a
l
wa
y
l
ined
u
p he
r
e, and
t
h
e l
as w
h
o
f
ly th
em
.
Flyin
g
fi hters off this island is rugged
business. You
m
ay h
e
ar them taking of
f
right over our
heads here in this truct while I am on the air.
We
were awakened by them shortly before da
w
n. Well, you
get into your P-51, you take off from the edge of a
cliff, you fly eight hundred miles or so oYer the
Pacific, to Japan; there you have a
g ■ t
go at the
Japs, and maybe you are shot u
p
; and then you try to
fly back for eight hundred miles to this mountain-top
jutting out o
f
the sea.
One lad, on his first mission, got separated
i~
the soup from his own outfit. He
w
a
s
bound for
Tokyo, on escort
d
uty. He fle
w
aroun
d
a few minutes;
pick
e
u
p
o
n
e of our planes on his radio,
w
ithout seeing
-6
-
it. His
o
n
directi
o
n
instruments
we
e
o
u
t of
com-
mission. Well,
he
wound
up
fly
in
to
O
aka, instead of
Tokyo,
itb
anot
her
outfit.
And
then,
st
ill without
seeing the
plan
e
s
he
was
·i
th,
he
followb
them
back.
They
"talked him in" as they
describe
it.
Finally
be
looked
at
his fuel indicator. It
said two quarts left.
Still he didn't
know where
he was and could
aee
nothing.
But he ha
to let down. Lo and behold, there was old
urabachi, and his own f
l
ying field. Be got
down,
and
right in the middle of his roll his engine
went dead.
Not
a
drop
cf
gas left.
As we were fl1ing in to Iwo Jima, B-29s were
coming b
a
ck from the latest raid on Japan, a strike at
the industrial section of Osaka.
Quite
a number of them
are
still
here
this
morning. They had run ou
of
gas,
and stopped here to take on enough to get them to their
bases
t Gua
m
, Saipan and
Tinian.
I
may
be going
along in one of them.
L
as
t night under the moon, thousands of dusty,
grimy men who have been on this volcanic cone for
-7-
month, mot of
them since we
first came
to Iwo,
sat in the lava
dust and
sa
the
fir
s
t show,
"live
show" they call
it
--
not a
movie --
that has found
its
way
to Iwo Jima.
It
was
Diet Jurgens and
his
band --
all
Marines.
At
the
end of the show, General
Arnold
stepped out and said that before long he
expects to hear Dick Jurgens and his band in Tokyo.
By the
way,
General
Arnold, has now visited just
about all of the bomber and fighter outfits
an
these
Pacific Islands.
He told the
boys
of the vital
part they have been and are still playing, for thre~
main reasons: Iwo is now our extreme outpost from
which our fighters can strike at Japan and escort
the B-29s.
That in itself is enough to
make
it
invalucti.e.
eco
o
d, as a protection to our larger
bases,
farther back, in the
Marianas.
Third, as a
way
st~tion
for bombers that have incurred battle
damage
or are out
of gas, and otherwise
would
be lost. So it' easy to
see
of what tremendous value Iwo Jima is. Yesterday
-
8
-
General Arnol
told us the
A
ry
Air
Forces
will drop
twice
a
s
many
tons of bombs on Ja
p
an as
last ye
a
r.
That
is, we
are going to do this
in
the twelve months
commencing July first.
By the
way, "Micky"
Moore, the young Brigadier
in command of the air squadrons here,
was
boasting
a few
minutes
ago,
at breakfast, of having the only
hated runways in the
world.
Smoke and fumes from the
volcanic fires actu lly seep up through the runways!
General Arnold got his biggest hand fr
o
m that
entertainment-hunger crowd of men, with the following
line. Said he: •After hearing about all the fighting
we did for this island
,
and now after seeing it, I
can
t see why we ever bothered about the damn thing!•
The boys yelled
and
cheered at that. For Iwo Jima
is the last place on earth there anyone would
want
to
spend any time.
I
can certify personally to that.
In fact,
I'm on my way
now, as
I
say
SO LONG, and
as
I turn you all the
way
back to America, and the NBC
in Hew York.
--o--
-
he
meeting
of
the Big
Three i
s
to
be
held
in
Berl
·
n. That was announced
today - prematurely,
because of
a
leak.
Hitherto the top
international conferences,
the ones
in
which President Roosevelt participated, weM.
kept a dark secret, covered by the censorship of
war.
The place of the meeting was not disclosed until the
whole thing was over.
It had been intende~ to preserve a
similar
....
secrecy about the forthcoming conference
of
President
Truaan, Prime Minister
Churchill and
Preaier
Stalin.
But today a leak developed, or rather the
whole
structure of secrecy gave way - over in England. There,
~
labor party leader Clement Attlee, stated in a letter
that the aeeting
of
the Big Three would be held in Berlin
The news was iaaediately taken to the
lb\te House, where, at first, Presidential Secretary
Boss refused to
aake
any comment. Later, after consulting
the President perhaps, he called the newsmen back and
said - yes. Because of the disclosure in London, the
lhite
OIINA
A
On Okinawa, the Japa have ~ome to
point of
aaas
suicides --
which is their
usual
when the end has come. They are also surrendering -
rather aore than usual. And we 1
2
hear of Japanese
,
officers killing hundreds of their men
-
because these
have been
weakening,
an~ hav~ wanted to surrender.
Today
Major
Gen'ral Pedro Del Valle,
Coaaander
of 1he First Marine Division, state~:
•••
have jus
reached the turning point - the point
where
the
Japs•'wil~to fight
1
is
broken.
·
The
ene■J
is baginnin1
to
fold up through
surrenders,
suicides and disorganized
resistance•.
The reaaining eneay force of between fiYe
/
and ten thousand is cornered on a rugged slope about
four miles long and three
■ ilea
wide.
At the end
of
the
slope are hundred foot cliffs towering over the China
Sea. The Americans are driving
the ■
toward those cliffs
. .
with
fla■ e
throwers, tire boabs and artillery -
and suicide japs are hurling
the ■ sa..ves
down into the sea.
JORIEO
In liorneo, the
Australians,
having
captured the city of Brunei, are pushing along to a
coastal town . .
.
called Tuong. They are being aided by
~
~
l
I
J
called
-•wild
men
of Borneo•.
That is -
the
spear
oarrying dyaks
7
~
JS~' .
Along
the coast Jap positions are being boabed by planes and
,
shelled
by
the guns of warships
-
this naval and air
actiYity being a prelude to a drive toward oilfields
in the
liri
District of upper Sarawak.
The lar Department announce
s
that one
SupeJfortress was lost in the raid on Osaka.
One
B-29
failed to return
from the assault that turned the treat
Japanese war harbor into a seething tempest of
flaaes.
Reports indicate the daaage
~
Osaka a s ~ as the
havoc caused
b7
the other great air attacks
on
the
cities ol Japan.
--
AIR
AR
Dr. A
Osaka is
the
greate
t
industrial
city of
ea
ire.
~tis often cal
ed
theChicago of Japan.
I've
been there many times but I never liked it much,
~cause
it is crowded with factories. The
modern
buildings of
Japane
s
e cities are
mostly
of
reinforced concrete. After
the great earthquake of Nineteen Twenty-three it was
discovered that reinforced concrete
as th
e
onst
ruction
••••~l•ait,
to
ithstand
e
rth uake shocks. Therefore,
the r built part of Tokyo, Yokohama, Jobe
and
Nagasaki,
and the great factory buildings are of this material.
Bevertheless, the housEB of the workers and residents
cluster about the factories, like chickens around a
hen and compose by far the gr
e
atest part of all the
cities. These houses are built of unpainted pine, walled
with
sliding paper screens, and tiled ro fs. I
the
outlaying districts some of
the ■
are even thatched with
straw. The floors of the houses are covered with matting.
Therefore, the greater part of all the cities is of
highly inflammable construction. Fire,
~
especially if
it
is
fanned by
wind,
spreads through these pine buildings
AIR
WAR
-
Dr
A
-
2
as
though
it
were in
a
dry fore,i,. Only
in
the largest
cities is there anything like our
modern
fire fighting
equipment.The Jape opened
wide
areas in Tokyo and other
places to act as fire breaks. But these are completely
ineffective where incendiary bombs scatter blazing
gasoline over hundreds of yards.
When
the surrounding
houses go up in flaaes the factories are doomed. As I
said
a
few ■■
nights ago, it is highly important to
destroy the residential parts of the cities because
almost every family who used to
make
toys and other
co ■ aercial
articles now produce small parts far war
aunitions of Yarious sorts.
Th
e ca
pt'ln! of Von Ribbentrop,
who was
lazi Foreign Minister, ties
in
ironically with the
story often told about
him -
how he was a champagne
salesman before
he
became Hitler's lumber One Diplomat.
R
i
bbentrop is t
last
big-time
lazi to be
accounted for. lhen Germany collapsed, he vanished
-
dropped out of
hunted for him all over
today.
Bow we
learn
For
weeks,
the Allies
but to no avail - until
in
Ha ■burg
all the
tiae.
-
lhen the end came, he went to Haaburg and
there looked up an old friend - seeking help. The
was a
wine
merchant,
whom
Ribbentrop had known
intimately in
tiaes
gone by - the checkered past of
the former Razi Foreign Ministerhaving been so closely
/
connected
with wine.
Ln
a way, when
the end
caae - he
reve~ted to the
wine
salesman,
1
seeking
~ ~ 1 c n
a
wine aePchant
1
refused to give
important a war
failed
hi ■,
wever~ The wine merchant
harbor so
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