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...December. But as with much else in the land of rising statistics, the Japanese effort appears to be much bigger, or at least more zealous. Last year about 6,000 Japanese toured World War II battlegrounds. A Pan Am jumbo jet last month brought 300 pilgrims home from Saipan, Guam and Tinian; another 400 will soon be leaving on a cruise ship for the burning sands of Iwo Jima, where no fewer than 20,000 Imperial troops died in combat. Later this year, other battleground pilgrims will visit Mindanao, Leyte, New Guinea and even Siberia...
...straggler, who had finally been persuaded to surrender on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. For many Japanese, Onoda's ordeal seemed to strike a more responsive emotional chord than that of Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, another wartime Rip van Winkle, who returned from his hideout on Guam two years ago (TIME, Feb. 7, 1972). Yokoi had remained in hiding because he was afraid, and did not know that the war was over...
...professional pilots (see following page) who had been finally the only ones left to carry on the war. From a high of more than 600,000 U.S. combatants, only 62,000 had remained to wage war in Indochina, and all of them were stationed in Thailand and on Guam or on aircraft carriers offshore...
...victory was demonstrated not to be inevitable." With the bombing ended, Lee acknowledged early this month that he was now "in a more uncomfortable position." To reassure him and other Southeast Asians the U.S. plans to keep some of its bombers and fighters on bases in Thailand and on Guam. This is close enough for a quick reaction, should Congress ever authorize the President to respond if the Communists some day launch another major military offensive...
...guidance station in Bien Hoa, South Viet Nam, in 1970. He told the committee that he and others had doctored reports to make it appear that the Cambodian missions had been flown against targets in South Viet Nam. True reports on the Strategic Air Command bombing runs out of Guam or Thailand -as many as 407 in one month-were routed directly to President Nixon, National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and a small handful of top officials, bypassing the normally classified Pentagon record-keeping channels...