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.3rd TMRS CitedFor Safety* >TAEGU, K orea, Mar. 21(KComZ)Th 3rd Trans, Mili-tary Railway Service was cit4Thursday by M aj. G en . W illiam8. Lawton, KComZ commander,for "outstanding achievementin accident prevention" duringthe past year.Col. B. B. G ray, com m andingofficer of the unit, received theaward* Present at the ceremo-nies were Col.George D. Pax-son, Seattle, Wash., KComZtransportation officer, and Maj.William J. -Fitzgerald, Mar-blehead, Mass., KComZ directorof safety.The 3rd TMRS reduced itsmilitary personnel injuries $2percent in 1953 w hile increasingits vehicle mileage by 20 per-cent for the same period.

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- ' ' *3rd Marines S t a g e Iw o A s s a u l tIn D e c a d e s 2nd I n v a s i o n o f IslamWITH .TH& SEVENTHSLBfcT: p**r 3 K V O JIMA, Mar,21 lv. today assaulted thebeaches of Iwo Jima.Fallowing a simulated pre-Invasion bombardment fcyheavy Seventh Fleet 'units androcket ships of t shore, surfaceactions and air attack, the Ma -rines landed in the largesttraining exercisein the Fa* &ast si&ce thef th e Korean War,The invasion force, arrivingby sea from the north, storm-ed th e black volcanic-ash"beaches at 1p.m.Th training exercise willcontinue fo r tw o weeks. Urn-pirs and evaluation teams onIwo witf regulate the progress*> f the engagement and ter-minate it, if and when* theisland is secured.Meet* OppositionThe word "if" becomes apossibility because the landingforce is meeting opposition.A force termed the "Aggres*gor" Command is opposingthe landingbloodlesfely-withground troops, air power an dits own navy.The mission of the Marinesfrom the Task Force is to seizetand consolidate a beachhead,then fan out to the tiorth to-ward a. designated airfield andto the south toward Mt. Suri-bachi.A helicopter element, airlift-ing troops, will seek a base ofoperations ashore.The.initial waves of Marinesmimber 3,600 Mien and arebacked up by later waves instrength. The3rd Marine Begt4la to seize Blue Beach to theaouth and the strong point ofMt, Suribachi. The 9th Xtegt.Is to take Red Beach andmove north. BtvArty andamphibious vehicles will sup-ply close fire power on bothbeaches. Tw o BeaehetThere are only two beacheson Iwo Jima which lend them*Helves to amphibious landings,one on the southeast aide otthe porkchop-ahaped isle andthe other on the southwest aide.The southeast beach was theone used by the Marine VAmphibious Corps, of whichthe 3rd w as a part, when itestablished its famed "Beach-head in Hell1* during WorldWar II. However, the south-west beach is being used intoday's assault with a pos-sibility that the southeastbeach may also be used fo r &landing.

Overall commander of thereturn to Iwo is Vice Adm.Alfred M. Pride, commanderof the Seventh Fleet, on thebattleship Wisconsin, tinderhim are four flag eommand-era? vMaj, Oen, Hobert K Pepper, commanding the $rdMarine BhM Rar Adm. J;M.Will, commander of Task Foroe60 on the Mt. MoK inley; BearAdm. T. C. Began, commanderof Cruiser Division On* onthe cruiser Toledo? and BearAdm. J,P Whitney, commanderof Carrier Division Five, co-ordinator of the rolet of bothfriendly and aggressor navalair power, onOriskany. Col, the CarrierWallace O.Thompson is the Umpire Con-trol Director."Aggressors* $*fea&The 2nd Bn. of the 4th MarineRegt., reinforced, under com*mind of Lt. Col. George P.Wolfe, is the defending 4 Ag-gressor* ground force. Histroops are augmented at eaby a carrier-led task group andsubmarines, and in the air byelements of the FEAF BomberCommand.Th e jsimula,1 'tie problemassumes tb/gained contrant stronghol

enemy has> a n y import--eviously heldby friendly forces in the FarEast and has succeeded incapturing Hokkaido and North-ern Honshu.

Anticipating eventual f captureof all important islands in theJapan area, the Aggressor hassucceeded in assaulting SwoJima, 880 air miles from To-kyo, in th* Voleano Islands,The friendly force command-er has ordered a re-attack ofthat strategic spot to deny itsus to the Aggressor and pro-vide a, base for future opera-tions.Task Forca 90, the selfsameNavy amphibioua group thatput the U.3. X Corp* and unitsof the 1st Marine Div* ashoreat Inchon, Korea in 1S50. leftJapan with the Srd i)lv. fromvarious points on th* Island ofHonshu oa Mar, 15-1445, torendezvous with warehi|i6 ofthe Seventh FUet. r 'ffinroute to the objective theinvasion force employed va*iv e tactipa en xnatese. , ,On Mar. 18 the invafiion forcefeinted, at the Bonm island ofHaha; Shima and staged *n in vasion rehearsal there beforeproceftding out to sea .againtowards two* :According to a Marinespokesman Jima was chos-en for the exercise because itwas the only ptee* of real-estate in the Far East wherea . training operation of thistype could be carried out with-out interrupting other opera-tions, > . " ' ,

R i c h G o a l B o d s S a i dlocated t o R o d C h i n aHONGKONG, Mar. 21 (UP)Communist press reports reach-ing here Friday said China'srichest coal deposits are inShansi Province.The pro-Communist TakungPao quoting these reports saidmore than 1 billion tons of.coalare deposited in three largecoal mining areas of that pro-vince.The newspaper boasted thatIf th d annual production of thethrea coal mines were 1milliontons it would take 1,000 yearsto extract all the coal from theareas.

Taylor Gets PlaqueFrom Filipino BattalionSEOUL, Mar. 21 (8th Army) Lt .Col. Alfonso P&lencla,commanding officer of the 14thBn . Combat Team of the Phil-ippine .Expeditionary Forces toK orea, Friday presented Gen-eral Maxwell D. Taylor witha plaque commemorating1 thellth'a year of service withU.N. forces in K orea. Morethan 38 0 Eighth Army andU.N. officials were present for

the ceremony.Pacific Stars & Stripes

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SF C AwardedSilver StarHQ., U.S.3RD DIV., Mar.21Thft nation's t h i r d highestmedal for gallantry in action,the Silver Star, has been award-ed to SFC James L. Spangler,Vine Grove, Ky., fop heroic ac-tion near Chorwon, K orea lastJune, it was announced hereFriday.Spangler was commanding atank -recovery vehicle in frontof the MLB when it w as dis-abled by an intense enemy ar-tillery barrage. Cne round ex-ploded near Spangler, knockinghi m unconcious.Coming to , the sergeant ex -posed himself to the heavy firein order to carry a woundedcomrade to safety. He then su-pervised th e man's evacuationto an aid station.2-DAY "HOLI" FETE BEGINSNEW DELHI, India, Mar. 21(AP) Governmental -*nd cona-mercial activities in India, weresuspended Friday as the nationbegan a two day observanceof "Holi"annual celebrationof the end of winter.

if Offlwr DteiO f 41eillbtr W o y nOSAN, Korea, MAP. $1 TAEGU, K o r ea , Mar. 21(KComZ)Th 3rd Trans, Mili-tary Railway Service was cit4Thursday by Maj. Gen . William8. Lawton, KComZ commander,fo r "outstanding achievementin accident prevention" duringthe past year.Col. B. B. Gray, commandingofficer of the unit, received theaward* Present at the ceremo-nies were Col.George D. Pax-son, Seattle, Wash., KComZtransportation officer, and Maj.William J. -Fitzgerald, Mar-blehead, Mass., KComZ directorof safety.The 3rd TMRS reduced itsmilitary personnel injuries $2percent in 1953 while increasingits vehicle mileage by 20 per-cent for the same period.Pacific Stars & Stripes 7