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...York Herald Tribune, had kicked off with a dispatch from Okinawa, suggesting that Tenth Army tactics had been ultraconservative, that the campaign might have moved faster if the III Marine Amphibious Corps had been used last month for an end-run landing in the south, behind the Jap lines, instead of being thrown into a power drive at the Shuri line alongside the Army's XXIV Corps. Columnist David Lawrence picked up the cry and shrilled about the "military fiasco at Okinawa ... a worse example of military incompetence than Pearl Harbor." He blamed the Navy's heavy losses...
Change of Mind. At various Allied headquarters far from Nanning, analysts are now putting together bits of information about Jap plans for the future. Well before the evacuation of Nanning and the abandonment of the corridor, the Japs started continental redispositions. Two new divisions were recently sent to Indo-China, and divisions already there have been brought up to strength with Korean and Formosan replacements. The chewed-up Burmese divisions have been pulled back to Thailand...
Chinese troops entered Nanning at noon the next day, encountered no serious opposition and rapidly moved forces both north and south until they held about 100 miles of the corridor. At present they stand about 20 miles from Liuchow, which will probably fall when the Jap timetable reaches the proper...
Borneo was ripe for MacArthur's attention, for on the Philippines the campaign had settled down to a hard, patient mop-up in the dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita...
...Technical Sergeant William L. Brown of De Witt, Ark., it all began in New Guinea, where the 32nd Division commander badly needed a Jap prisoner to question, and promised a furlough as payment. Brown scurried off into the bush, brought back a live Jap, spent his leave in Australia and got married there...