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...slight figure, wide grin and puckish face-unlike Willie's, his beard was no heavier than peach fuzz-was better known to the Fifth Army than General Mark Clark...
...White House.* Harry Truman, facing the gigantic problem of Europe's hunger and poverty, had "cordially invited" him down from New York for a talk. The interview, scheduled to last 30 minutes, went on for almost an hour. Smiling, grey-haired Herbert Hoover, 70, looking a little heavier than usual, let a waiting crowd of reporters, newsreel men and photographers guess at what had been discussed. Said the only living ex-President: "The President of the United States has the right to make his own statements...
...last week the Army Air Forces had mined Tokyo harbor (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), and stepped up the Superfortress fire attacks on Japan's industry to 500-plane strength - equivalent in bomb tonnage to all but a few of the heaviest air strikes against Germany. The attacks would grow heavier. If there was anything left of Tokyo or Nagasaki or Nagoya or of any of Japan's industrial plant by the time the U.S. Army and Marines moved in, it would not be through lack of attention from the Air Forces...
Transportation. The shift to the Pacific will make the load on railroads heavier. Further curtailment of passenger service may be necessary. Airplane priorities must be continued...
With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...