U.S. heavies raid Formosa 5 days in row
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Tougher fighting ahead, Iwo’s conqueror says
PACIFIC FLEET HQ, Pearl Harbor (UP) – Lt. Gen. Holland M. “Howling Mad” Smith, commander of Fleet Marine forces in the Pacific, declared today on his return from Iwo Island that the fighting will “get tougher” as U.S. forces approach Japan.
Gen. Smith reiterated that the Iwo battle, which has cost approximately one American casualty for every three men out ashore, was the “toughest, hardest fight in Marine history.” He said the cost of conquering Japan’s Gibraltar of the Pacific was evidence of the difficult struggles ahead.
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Iwo written off as lost by Tokyo
Last attack by Jap survivors reported
GUAM (UP) – The Japs wrote off Iwo as lost today.
A Tokyo broadcast said the last survivors of the Jap garrison opened their final attack Saturday midnight and acknowledged that nothing further had been heard from the island.
A Pacific Fleet communiqué said Marines were mopping up isolated Jap remnants in the rugged northern part of the conquered island.
Some Japs have donned the uniforms of Marine dead, the communiqué said. One Jap so dressed stopped an American ambulance, shot and wounded the driver and escaped. Snipers were still active.
Fifty-one Superfortresses were revealed to have made emergency landings on captured airstrips on Iwo because of low gasoline supplies or engine trouble.
Army fighters, presumably from Iwo, bombed and strafed barges and radio and radar facilities on Chichi, just north of Iwo. Army Liberators bombed Chichi airfield.
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