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Two hundred yards inland from where she now stood, on the third day of the assault, John Bradley saw an American boy fall in the distance.†
Chpt 1.

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America was at peace, but the Marines had been practicing amphibious assaults against Caribbean islands for over sixteen years by now.†
Chpt 4. *

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Mike and the landing Marines could see no enemy; none of the invaders could; it would become an all-too-common frustration of sea-to-land assaults in the Pacific campaign.†
Chpt 4.
In 1943, there were reasonable military officers in the Pacific who expressed serious doubts whether "any fortified island could ever be assaulted by amphibious forces.†
Chpt 4.

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But when the first three assault waves of Marines stormed ashore on the morning of November 20, 1943, they realized the Navy bombardment had been ineffective, had only rearranged the sand.†
Chpt 4.

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The distance between this first major amphibious assault on Tarawa and faraway Tokyo was over two thousand miles.†
Chpt 4.
Tarawa was the first major amphibious assault in which the Marines faced sustained opposition on the beach.†
Chpt 4.
The American victory at Tarawa opened the Central Pacific to a new Marine thrust, with more difficult amphibious island assaults ahead.†
Chpt 4.

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And so, its high command, facilities, colors, and shoulder insignia squared away, Camp Pendleton began molding the assault force that would descend upon that ugly, as-yet-nameless scab.†
Chpt 5.

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Whatever he needed—a lone Marine to assault a blockhouse, a three-man fire squad, a forty-man platoon, a two-hundred-fifty-man company, a nine-hundred-man battalion, or a three-thousand-man regiment—all his Marines had to be able to break off or come together as needed.†
Chpt 5.
These exercises quickly gave way to full-fledged mock assaults.†
Chpt 5.

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In early July, using transports that set sail from San Diego, these units participated in two landing assaults on San Clemente Island off the California coast.†
Chpt 5.
At the conclusion of the second landing, the troops immediately reboarded the transports and headed for their final exercise of the Pendleton phase: an assault on what their officers now called "Pendleton Island," and described to them as "a strongly held advance air base of the Japanese in the Western Pacific—a base that menaced U.S. forces."†
Chpt 5.

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Like Rene Gagnon, Iggy was young, almost unthinkably young, to be in combat training: He was seventeen during the advanced training at Pendleton; eighteen when Iwo was assaulted.†
Chpt 5.

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The maneuvers at Camp Tarawa, with its obsidian terrain and its access to the pitching Pacific surf, were designed, as far as was humanly possible, to make the troops live out the assault on Iwo Jima before they got there; to live it out in their reflexes, their instincts, their dreams.†
Chpt 5.

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Most of the vessels came splashing off the industrial assembly lines in the six months before this assault.†
Chpt 6.
Here is some of what those mobilized civilians have generated for this tremendous force: For each of the 70,000 assault-troop Marines, 1,322 pounds of supplies and equipment.†
Chpt 6.
The transport ships carry six thousand five-gallon cans of water, enough food to feed the population of Atlanta for a month, or the assaulting Marines for two months.†
Chpt 6.

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The first ten waves of the assault force—the tip of Spearhead—were placed on board LST's for the final trip to Iwo.†
Chpt 6.

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On February 15, the assault troops shoved off from Saipan.†
Chpt 6.
Only two miles of beach on the entire perimeter was suitable for an assault.†
Chpt 6.
Smith and his staff were the world's experts on amphibious assaults.†
Chpt 6.

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The only way the cave kamikaze could be overcome was by direct frontal assault, young American boys walking straight into Japanese fields of fire.†
Chpt 6.

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The evening of D-Day minus one, February 18, a date that nine years later would become my birthday, my father and the assault troops still could not see their objective.†
Chpt 6.
Their churning craft would approach Iwo Jima on schedule, only just before it was time to assault the beaches.†
Chpt 6.
This assignment meant that Easy Company would be part of a 2,000-man force fighting a separate battle from the main assault: Some of the 5th and the entire 4th Division would fan out toward the right and progress northward along the island's length to engage the bulk of its defenders.†
Chpt 7.
As Howlin' Mad Smith would later declare: "The success of our entire assault depended upon the early capture of that grim, smoking rock."†
Chpt 7.
By 10:35 A.M., a small group of men from the first assault waves—Company A of the 28th Regiment—had survived a near-suicidal, seven-hundred-yard dash across the island to the western beach.†
Chpt 7.
Meanwhile, other brave boys were doing grunt-work near the shoreline, work that would get the mechanized part of the assault in motion.†
Chpt 7.
Colonel Harry Liversedge moved his command post two hundred yards nearer the front, to be ready for the next morning's assault on the mountain.†
Chpt 7.
The shells wiped out two casualty stations on the assault beach, killing many already wounded men.†
Chpt 8.
Soon after sunrise on D-Day plus one, Colonel Liversedge positioned his 2nd and 3rd Battalions to continue their assault on Mount Suribachi.†
Chpt 8.
The ground assault gained less than seventy-five yards through the morning, and those yards were earned the old-fashioned way: via flamethrowers, hand-held guns, and demolitions.†
Chpt 8.
They knew that in the morning their battalion would have to assault the mountain.†
Chpt 8.
And that they would be part of the assault force.†
Chpt 8.
Colonel Liversedge had expected several to arrive to cover the assault, but none had appeared.†
Chpt 9.
Harry the Horse delayed the assault until eight-fifteen, hoping that at any moment the mechanized monsters would grind into view.†
Chpt 9.
Stoically, they followed their assigned roles and maintained the intricate teamwork of the great assaulting organism.†
Chpt 9.

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Wells willed himself to stay in the field another half hour, directing assault groups and rallying his men.†
Chpt 9.

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The wet day ended with the 28th Regiment poised in a vast semicircle around the battered volcano's base, gathering its strength for the finishing assault, expected to come the next morning.†
Chpt 9.
Movie theaters showed newsreels of the assault, sometimes updating them daily as new footage arrived.†
Chpt 12.
Then there was the shifting emphasis of reportage as the assault on the volcano wound down.†
Chpt 12.
It would be the largest and costliest operation in the annals of warfare: 1.5 million combat troops committed to the initial assault waves, with reserves bringing the total to 4.5 million.†
Chpt 17.

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(1) (assault)
to attack someone or something physically or verbally; or to threaten violence
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