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...more places than Guam, U.S. soldiers were beginning to detect some response to the blandishments of "come with us." On Okinawa 6,932 Japanese were prisoners (2,433 were Koreans and Okinawans). In the last days they had appeared in groups sometimes 50 strong, waving red, white & blue U.S. surrender leaflets. In the Philippines 609 surrendered to the 37th Division in 36 hours...
...Detect and sound warnings of floods, forest fires...
...theB-29 route between the Marianas and Japan, the surface of the ocean is broken by a pimple called Iwo Jima or Sulphur Island. There the Japanese have maintained three airfields, also a radar station to detect the B-29s and flash word to Tokyo, 750 miles away, giving more than two hours' warning of the bombers' approach. By last week, U.S. planes had bombed little Iwo for 66 consecutive days...
...have been relaying BBC shows up to the point where a news broadcast is announced; then the German station cuts BBC off, substitutes its own version of the "news" without any apparent break in the program-and switches back to BBC after unloading its propaganda. Only radio experts can detect the changeovers...
This work is the basis of the well known brain wave machines which detect certain kinds of brain damage, including epilepsy. The recording method is also used to measure the recovery of nerves damaged by wounds or operations...