U.S. Marines On Iwo Jima Receive Mail By Parachute -- U.S. Marines gather packages of parachuted mail dropped to them by a transport plane during their bitter fight on Iwo Jima, Japanese military outpost 750 miles (1200 kms.) from Tokyo, capital of Japan. The Marines, with strong artillery support, drove the Japanese to the northern tip of the volcanic Island in three weeks of furious fighting. By March 12, they had cut the remnants of the Japanese garrison into two small pockets, each occupying