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Thus far, Johnson and his aides have resisted that temptation more often than they have succumbed to it. The ground war in South Viet Nam, up to and including the call for massive air strikes by B-52 heavy bombers that fly all the way from Guam, is largely in the hands of Westmoreland and his generals. Westmoreland has had to clear with Washington such operations as thrusts into the DMZ, the shelling of North Viet Nam, the movement of U.S. troops into the precarious and populous Mekong Delta. It is in moves of that sort, and primarily...
...pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some 60 B-52s are now based on Guam and in Thailand to fly conventional missions over North Viet...
...most Japanese, World War II ended in 1945. Not, however, for Sergeant Itō Masashi, a machine gunner in the Imperial Army. Separated from his unit during the American invasion of Guam in July 1944, Itō fled with two comrades into the jungle-and hid there until 1960, convinced throughout that a Japanese task force would soon arrive to drive the enemy away. This book is his account of his 16-year struggle in the jungle and his torment upon return. It is disjointed in places, and it suffers somewhat from a translator bent on changing...
...sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept under rudimentary lean-tos in jungle thickets, constantly changing locations to avoid discovery by the one enemy who knew the jungles as well as they did: Guam's native Chamorro tribesmen, whom the Americans had assigned to clear the island of Japanese holdouts...
...ordeals are still not over. In the U.S. military hospital in Guam, nothing could convince him that the war was over-or that the Americans were not somehow rigging a trap to kill him. Repatriated to his village in Japan, where his father had erected a monument, Masashi found it impossible to shake off the instincts of the hunted animal. Every sound in the night awakens him in panic. "I understand well enough that there's not the slightest element of danger," Itō writes, "but my senses won't acknowledge this conclusion. Once it has taken hold...