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...Japs had already offered to surrender when the New York Herald Tribune's solemn, bespectacled Homer Bigart last week climbed into a Japan-bound B29. He wanted to see how the flyers felt on such a mission...
...When Bigart stepped out of the B-29 after a 15-hour flight, he was in a world at peace. From Guam he filed what may have been the last eyewitnesser...
Second Wave. War Correspondent Bigart was almost a prptotype of the second wave of newsmen to cover World War II. The first wave, of big-name glamour boys, mostly wound up as radio experts- or dashed into a war zone to get enough material for a quick book and lecture tour. The second wave were real war babies...
Post Mortem. How long the fleet had been held there, supporting the invasion, had become the subject of rumbling & mumbling in Washington. Homer Bigart, conscientious front-line correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist...
...fanaticism is also disturbing. A Brooklyn private, describing the banzai shout, told Bigart: "It had kind of a weird sound, like Ladies' Day at Ebbets Field." Wrote Bigart: "The German . . . rarely tries suicide tactics. When a mission becomes hopeless the German gives up. But the Japanese never does...