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.
Sidney Howard
Born: June 26, 1891
Died: August 23, 1939 (aged 48)
Bio: Sidney Coe Howard was an American playwright, dramatist and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1925 and a posthumous Academy Award in 1940 for the screenplay for Gone with the Wind.
Known for:
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Dodsworth (1936)
- Arrowsmith (1931)
- Bulldog Drummond (1929)
- A Lady to Love (1930)