Posted on 11/26/2014 4:19:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
A little better info here. I don’t think he made the news for a long time.
http://www.wtj.com/articles/gabaldon/
..................Before leaving Saipan, I went to the Stockade to bid adios to the many people I knew there. There were actually hundreds who I had personally saved from sure death. One guy, Shimabukuro, was a special friend, and he had become my personal barber. “Guy-san, before you leave us, I want you to see someone here who you saved from jumping over the cliff. Do you remember that woman you grabbed right after she had thrown her baby to the rocks down below. The people who were there say that she screamed and fought you, but you held her down. Well, she lost her mind a few days after she was brought here to the stockade. It seems that when she realized that she had killed her child unnecessarily - that the Americans were not going to roast and eat the children - she became “hidari-maki” (lost her mind). Come I will take you to her.” There she sat, motionless, just staring straight ahead. My God, what a pathetic sight. I should have let her join her baby that day at the cliffs.
This was truly the horror of war.
Nephew of Pinch the elder.
I assume the notification that HQ SWPA opening on Leyte means Nimitz’ Graybook entries will no longer cover the operations in the Philippine Islands in great detail, as it’s not part of his Theater. I’m sure the fast carriers will continue to support MacArthu’s efforts with carrier raids.
I believe mules were also used in Burma. They were well-suited to the terrain, if not the climate.
I missed the significance of that entry. Too bad. I was interested in watching the casualty reports for Leyte that have been appearing on the Nimitz diary entries. My father will be among the MIA reported in December.
I didn’t know that was where this was going.
What a great Marine as well as a great and compassionate man...may he rest in peace.
BWAAA HAAA HAA HA, there's a blast from the past:-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Thanks.
Probably hanging-out with a classy green-eyed blonde.
“Arthur Ochs “Punch” Sulzberger, Sr. (February 5, 1926 – September 29, 2012) was an American publisher and businessman. Born into a prominent media and publishing family, he became publisher of The New York Times and chairman of the board of The New York Times Company in 1963. He relinquished to his son, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., the office of publisher in 1992, and chairman in 1997.
Punch (not Pinch) is the dad. Jr. took over in 1997.
Cyrus Leo Sulzberger II (October 27, 1912 – September 20, 1993) was an American journalist, diarist, and non-fiction writer. He was a member of the family that owned The New York Times and he was that newspaper’s lead foreign correspondent during the 1940s and 1950s.
The son of Cyrus L. “Leo” Sulzberger and nephew of Arthur Hays Sulzberger [Sr.],
Very informative. Thanks.
Where is DITHF when we need him? Probably hiding out with Quidam.
Let me say, because I have never posted to one of these threads, how great they are and how much I appreciate being able to read them.
Thank you! You make my day.
Thank you. Confusing batch of people with big WASP names ;-).
W, definitely. Not so sure about the ASP.
“Sulzberger” sounds pretty Germanic.
Not WASPs
“He was born on February 5, 1926, in New York City to Jewish parents Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Iphigene Bertha Ochs “
“Arthur Hays” doesn’t sound like a recent German immigrant, no matter what his last name is.
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