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	Ie-shima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island constitutes Ie Village and is connected to the Okinawa Motobu-Wan by ferry (also going to Tomari).
		Ie island is the setting of a traditional Okinawan drama where a sad girl by the name of Hando-gwaa who fell in love with a man named Kanahi, Ie-shima's headman.
		There is a monument dedicated to his memory in a coral cave on a beach on the southern coast of the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ie-jima (247 words)

	Chapter VII: The Capture of Ie Shima
		For five days after Ie Shima was declared secure, elements of the 77th mopped up remaining groups of the enemy, sealed caves, destroyed pillboxes, marked or removed the thousands of mines that were still on the island, and buried the dead.
		According to the division surgeon, "casualties on Ie Shima were unusually severe, many of them compound fractures of the extremities and penetrating head wounds caused by small-arms fire." Out of 944 cases, he reported, 412 wounds had been caused by small-arms fire, 511 by shell fragments, and 21 by other causes.
		As expected, Ie Shima proved to be an ideal base for the support of operations on Okinawa and for preparing later attacks on the Japanese homeland.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/wwii/okinawa/chapter7.htm (10662 words)

	Shima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shima (Japanese: 志摩) is the name of several places in Japan.
		Shima Province was one of the old provinces of Japan
		Shima, Mie is a city (and was a town) in Mie Prefecture
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shima (106 words)

	World War II Ends in the Pacific
		Ie Shima is an oval shaped island, five miles long, located to the West of Okinawa in the Ryukyu's Chain of islands just South of Japan.
		In spite of security on Ie Shima during this exercise, which was described by those present as being tighter than it would have been to protect the American president, many Americans crowded the area with cameras.
		On Ie Shima, the delegation was informed that one of the Bettys had mechanical problems and could not be repaired until the following morning.
	chs.cullmancats.net /ww2.htm (2410 words)

	World War II on Ie Shima
		On Ie Shima, soldiers seeking relief from the boredom of war would seek out the chaplain because he and the "reck" officer worked together to organized what recreation there was.
		While on Ie Shima, Pyle and the regimental commander were on their way to the front when the road was raked by machine-gun bullets.
		This marker was replaced by the soldiers on Ie Shima with a granite monument they bought that bears the same inscription.
	chs.cullmancats.net /ieshima.htm (973 words)

	Tuesday, September 11, 2001
		IE SHIMA — A group of Marines recently lived up to the Corps’ claim it is a 9-1-1 readiness force.
		Several Marines from Operation Support Detachment Ie Shima responded to a late-night call to douse a fire in a tourist area park on the island.
		“Ie Village has only two firetrucks and they were not enough to put out the fire that night,” said Tadashi Nishie, of Ie Village’s Fire Prevention Department.
	www.stripes.com /01/sep01/ed091101c.html (473 words)

	Ie-shima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The island constitutes Ie Village and is connected to the okinawa bu motobu-wan by fairy (also going to tomari.
		There is a monument dedicated to his memory in a coral cave on a beach on the souther coast of the island.
		Alternately called "Peanut Island," for its general shape and peanut crop, or "Flower Island," for its abundant flora and more sizeable crop, Ie now draws tourists by bus and ferry, though its overnight accommodations are not yet extensive.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/I/Ie-shima.htm (303 words)

	Ernie Pyle Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was the day the U.S. invaded the tiny island of Ie Shima, just off the upper western side of Okinawa.
		The Army's 77th Infantry Division was among those that landed on Ie Shima, each with their own mission to take down the tiny island.
		Pyle was buried in the 77th Division's cemetery on Ie Shima under a crude marker, which the Division later replaced with the current monument standing there.
	www.jahitchcock.com /ernie.html (563 words)

	diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		First, there is a physical description of the island, followed by a chronology of his year on the island until the end of the war in September.
		Ie Shima is comparatively large island located 3.5 miles west of Bise Zaki, the northwest end of Motubu Peninsula, on Okinawa.
		By 1700, however, the western half of Ie Shima, including the airfield was secure.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~patnaik1/diary.html (610 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Okinawa: The Last Battle [Chapter 7]
		The airfield battalion had originally been scheduled to return to Okinawa to work there after helping to destroy the Ie strips, but it was caught on Ie Shima by the invasion and took part in its defense.
		By the time of the invasion of Ie, the situation had been neatly reversed; the enemy had lost his guns, and Ie Shima was exposed to American medium and heavy land artillery as well as to the powerful guns of the Pacific Fleet.
		The account of the landings and ensuing action on Ie Shima is based on the following sources: Leach, 77th Div Ie Shima History; 77th Div Actn Rpt Ie Shima, a superior after-action report; G-2 Periodic Rpts, Summaries, Jnls, Msg Files; G-3 Periodic Rpts, Jnls, Msg Files; Tenth Army Jnl and Msg Files, 15-22 Apr 45.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-Okinawa/USA-P-Okinawa-7.html (11087 words)

	USAAF Chronology:
		HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): 36 Ie Shima Island-based P-47s, sweeping the S part of Kyushu Island, Japan, hit numerous targets of opportunity with rockets and machinegun fire, and claim 9 aircraft downed; in the Ryukyu Islands, Ie Shima-based P-47s patrol over Amami Gunto Island, Japan, strafing a lighthouse and buildings.
		During the night of 17/18 Jun, 2 P-61s from Ie Shima Island fly an unsuccessful (due to weather) intruder strike over Amami Gunto and Kyushu, Japan; this begins a campaign of night and day intruder missions over Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands by the night fighters (12 more are flown during Jun).
		HQ AAF (Twentieth Air Force): 36 P-47s from Ie Shima Island attack boats and a village in the Sakishima Archipelago, a wharf on Kuro Island, Ishigaki Island, and buildings, villages, targets of opportunity, and several points in the Ryukyu Islands.
	www.447bg.com /library/docs/chronology/Jun.45.html (8628 words)

	JAPAN CAPITULATES--Arrangements
		After landing at Ie Shima island, near Okinawa, the envoys were flown on to General MacArthur's Manila headquarters in a U.S. transport plane.
		The delegation had come to Ie Shima from Japan in specially-marked aircraft, en route to General MacArthur's headquarters in Manila to receive instructions concerning surrender and occupation arrangements.
		A Japanese civilian envoy boards a USAAF C-54 transport plane at Ie Shima airfield, Ryukyu Islands, to be flown to Manila to receive instructions for surrender and occupation arrangements, 19 August 1945.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/wwii-pac/japansur/js-3a.htm (831 words)

	SHIMA
		"SHIMA" is a common misspelling or typo for: schema, sham, shaman, shame, shim, shimmer, shimmy, shipman.
		Shima (志摩国; -no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Mie prefecture.
		The plane brought a Japanese delegation who were flown on to Manila in a USAAF C-54 transport to receive instructions concerning the surrender and occupation.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/SHIMA (599 words)

	Operation Iceberg: The Assault on Okinawa - The Last Battle of World War II (Part 1) April - June 1945
		Keise Shima (eleven miles southwest of the Hagushi Beaches) was secured by an unopposed landing of the 2/306 on 31 March.
		To the south of 'The Pinnacle' was Ie Town (most of the buildings being of stone construction and substantially fortified) and to the west in the centre of the island were three airstrips between 6 and 7,000 feet in length, in the shape of 'XI'.
		The entire population of Ie Shima was removed from the island so as not to interfere with the construction work on the airfields.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/battles_okinawa2.html (9984 words)

	Ie Jima Auxiliary Airfield
		Ie Jima Auxiliary Airfield, which occupies one third of the island, is where military training exercises are conducted such as Harrier aircraft take-off and landing exercises, and parachute drop training.
		The island of Ie Shima, three miles west of Okinawa, was invaded on 16 April 1945, after three days of naval and aerial bombardment and beach reconnaissance by Underwater Demolition Teams.
		The United States transferred parachute jump training conducted by the Army's 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), from the Yomitan auxiliary airfield (which was closed) to the auxiliary airfield on Ie Jima Island, just off the northwest coast of Okinawa.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/ie-jima.htm (399 words)

	BATTLESHIP TEXAS BB35 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An invasion was also made on the island of Ie Shima, off the northwest coast of Okinawa.
		(It was on Ie Shima that war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed, on 18 April).
		During the Ie Shima landings of 16 April, BB35 shot down one Japanese plane making a suicide attack on BB35.
	users3.ev1.net /~cfmoore/history/1945okinawa.html (689 words)

	Icky and Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The runway on Ie Shima was only 4,000 feet long.
		Dad routinely flew the 500 mile trip from Ie Shima to Kyushu and Shikoku with this load.
		So this is what she probably looked like sitting on the ramp at Ie Shima.
	www.inpayne.com /dad/icky.html (557 words)

	Mail Tribune - Letters to the editor
		she left I reminded her that the IE Shima Daily News was the important thing and not my experiences.
		I received several long phone calls from local people who had served on the IE Shima or on Navy ships near by.
		By the way, the article implied that the aircrafts on IE Shima were all B-17's and PBY's.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/aug99/81999n17.htm (688 words)

	Headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saddest: When I read the bulletin while in line at the mess hall on Ie Shima that more than 100,000 people had been killed with an atomic bomb at Hiroshima, Japan.
		I was on foriegn soil (New Guinea, Luzon, Ie Shima and Japan) for only a year.
		I was in one feeble air raid when a lone Jap Betty dropped some bombs on a line of P51's the night we docked off Ie Shima.
	www.kensmen.com /hq1.html (458 words)

	[No title]
		Example: the 7th, 27th, and 96th Infantry Divisions land on one beach, the 1st and 6th Marine Divisions on another, and the 77th Infantry Division on a third after capturing Ie Shima.
		The island of Ie Shima was defended by a small force.
		Any three divisions land in the initial invasion, plus a fourth on turn 5, and a fifth after the capture of Ie Shima.
	grognard.com /variants1/okinawa.txt (1005 words)

	Stars & Stripes
		All parachute training over the Ie Shima Auxiliary Airfield, which is maintained by a small contingent of Marines, was halted following an Oct. 25 incident involving the dropping of a 166-pound bundle on a farmer’s field just outside the airfield.
		No one was injured in that incident, but it frightened island residents and prompted the Ie Shima Town Council to pass a resolution demanding the cessation of all airdrop missions.
		Parachute training was moved to Ie Shima following the closing of the Yomitan Auxiliary Airfield near Torii Station in accordance with the 1996 plan adopted by the bilateral Special Action Committee on Okinawa.
	www.estripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=15043&archive=true (434 words)

	~318thFighterGroup.IeShima.html
		Unlike Saipan, Ie Shima was mostly secured when the 318th arrived, although fighting on nearby Okinawa was continuing.
		Ie Shima was also hit with delayed action bombs.
		For the 318th, Ie Shima was the last damned island.
	home.earthlink.net /~atdouble/~318thFighterGroup.IeShima.html (4453 words)

	Ie, Okinawa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ie (伊江村; -son) is a (A settlement smaller than a town) village located in (Click link for more info and facts about Kunigami district) Kunigami district, (The largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands) Okinawa, (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japan.
		The village lies on the island of (Click link for more info and facts about Ie-shima) Ie-shima.
		As of 2003, the village has an estimated ((statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn) population of 5,128 and the (The amount per unit size) density of 225.41 persons per (Click link for more info and facts about km²) km².
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/I/Ie/Ie,_Okinawa.htm (124 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - mattc's Homepage
		This picture was taken at a litle island off the coast called IE SHIMA.
		The caves all along the coast of Ie Shima are great.
		The beach was very rocky and it was hard to snorkel there due to all the coral.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/4fa11 (186 words)

	Ernie Pyle VFW
		He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished correspondence in 1944, and the next year he was killed by Japanese machine gun fire on Ie Shima.
		April 18, 1945, Ie Shima, Ryukyu Islands), American journalist who was one of the most famous war correspondents of World War II.
		He was with the U.S. forces in the Pacific on Iwo Jima, and during the Okinawa campaign he visited the nearby island of Ie Shima, where he was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire.
	www.erniepylevfw.org /history.html (618 words)

	Ie Shima Map 1940's
		This is a map of the island of Ie Shima.
		This is a map of the Japanese Island Chain where Ie Shima resides.
		IE Shima is located at the lower portion of this map near Okinawa.
	www.yellowairplane.com /34th/34th_Map.html (105 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ie-shima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Okinawa Honto (沖縄本島;, the main island of Okinawa) is the largest of the Ryukyu Islands at the edge of the East China Sea, helping to define the seas boundary with the open Pacific Ocean.
		Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ie_shima (534 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shima: Your dedication to healing my illness is...
		Shima: Even though I didn't know about it, a promise is a promise...
		Shima: I have heard that you desired a pure girl for your wife.
	www.wot-club.org.uk /trans/full_text/iv35/v35p06.txt (1403 words)

	Ie Shima: Exciting, Colorful and Amazingly Photogenic - JapanUpdate.com - Okinawa News, Classifieds, Events, Culture, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Ie Shima you can expect the most exciting wall diving on the island.
		You can also contact Kadena Marina as well at 634 6344 and ask if they are scheduling any trips to Ie Shima.
		Wajii my favorite second dive is just about 2000 yards south of Ohoba and is also on the western coast of Ie Shima.
	www.japanupdate.com /en?id=2103 (1431 words)

	Ie-jima Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	madison.com \| Post
		We got to Ie Shima and started to set up our isolation area.
		Ie Shima is famous for only one thing, it's where the GI's best friend, Ernie Pyle was killed near the end of WWII.
		Linked to Michelle Malkin's piece noting the anniversary of Ernie Pyle's death on Ie Shima where I have played.
	www.madison.com /post/blogs/militarymatters/index.php?ntid=35575&ntpid=2 (1739 words)

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