Word: formosae
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...those who assume that all admirals are intent upon the biggest postwar Navy obtainable, Spruance's views came as a little bombshell. Said he: the Navy should ,be substantially reduced; Okinawa should be a United Nations, instead of a U.S., base; U.S. bases in China or Formosa would not be practical; the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines would be enough...
...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...
Among those missing: ex-Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose, 48, Cambridge-educated leader of Japan's proposed puppet government for India. Last week, he was reported killed in an airplane crash in Formosa...
...China, Korea, Formosa and French Indo-China, an estimated 33,200 Allied prisoners (including 3,530 U.S. citizens) awaited liberation. In Japan there were perhaps 30,000 more - Americans, British, Dutch. Planes and hospital ships were assigned to begin the recovery...
...Santa Fe was at Wake Island, Bougainville, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Truk, Palau, Yap, Hollandia, Wakde, Samar, Ponape, Pagan, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Formosa. She sank a destroyer in the Bonins last August, and got four cargo ships off Mindanao, 2,000 miles to the southwest, in September...