Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
A. B. Guthrie Jr.

Born: January 13, 1901
Died: April 26, 1991 (aged 90)
Bio: Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his novel The Way West.
Known for:
- The Big Sky (1947)
- The Way West (1949)
- Fair Land, Fair Land (1982)
- Murders at Moon Dance (1943)
- The Blue Hen's Chick: An Autobiography (1965)